[Cialug] F'n Opt-in Spammers

[Academician Kula]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:47:38AM -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> Ok, I've been running TMDA happily now for nearly 9 months and I'm 
> *very* happy with it as it's eliminated nearly all my spam.  However, 
> I'm still amazed at the number of idiots that will confirm the TMDA 
> message to get spam through.  Naturally I take them off the confirmed 
> list and add them to the blacklist.
> 
> My question, however, is there should be something I can do with these 
> a-holes.  I mean, they are legit email addresses which, IMHO, means 
> there should be something more substantive I can do since they aren't 
> spoofed addresses.  Is there?  Granted this only happens a few times per 
> month but it still really angers me.


Wait, spammer A sends a message to you with random person B as the sender,
and you are dismayed when random person B incorrectly answers the question
"is this spam"? I'm really not sure how you can make a distinction between
legitimate e-mail addresses and spoofed e-mail addresses simply by looking
at whatever random bit of text gets put in the "From" line in a message
header.


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