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My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 12, 2003 @06:34AM from the you've-got-spam dept.

Freerange writes "Mike Masnick wrote up his experience getting slammed by a somewhat new kind of spam attack that doesn't get much hype (yet?). A spammer spoofed his personal email address as the 'reply-to' for a batch of spam, with interesting results for Mike: "I can now answer the questions 'who replies to spam?' and (should anyone ever wonder) 'what are the hundreds of variations on bounced messages?'" From Politech."

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Re:Not New @ All by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 06:46 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Probably the same idiot in Minnesota:(

Minnesota just barely discovered indoor plumbing. They have a while before they make it to an internet connection.
Re:What the Internet needs: by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 07:04 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Yes, because, lord knows, MS is the expert at email security. Just ask anyone that has used Outlook Express for any significant amount of time in the past 4 years.
Re:What the Internet needs: by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-12 08:16 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Just ask anyone that has used Outlook Express for any significant amount of time in the past 4 years.

I use Outlook because I'm smart enough to turn off all of the stupid bullshit (to include the preview pane).

I blame Microsoft for having default settings that are insecure much less than I blame user ignorance. Hell, even some "seemingly tech savvy" people don't even know you can make Outlook Express save to use. So it's not just the idiots that are ignorant. Ignorance is a fairly wide-spread problem.