SPAM is used as opposed to spam, for the emphasis on horrible processed material more akin to the Hormel attrocity.
I'm still waiting to see *new* clear spam, or vermicelli spam... also known as sporm... then I will know hell hath no fury like the abortions of human stupidity..
Its fairly simple....
Compile a library of common addresses, put a domain name behind it... spam away... the ones that give an undeliverable response are disgarded from that domain library....
when the spammer changes isps, or sells these mailing lists.. the victims will keeps on getting bombarded... even if they never gave out their address at all... if you are stupid enough enough to have a common name.. then you WILL get spammed..
ie: free@your isp.com, or sex@yourisp.com
its not the isps fault you people are dolts.. don't blame them for "selling their users email addresses"
I have worked in the security department of a major ISP for quite some time. The response time is not the issue. We could shut down a spammer within 15 minutes of recieving the first complaint. The problem is with fake accounts. A spammer will use stolen credit cards and do online signups with these, set up a mailserver on their computer and spam away the first time they log on and continue until we get the the NMC to kill their connection. By the time we have tracked down their account and have all the paperwork done, (which is just a few minutes) they already have another account waiting, and use a different VPOP, so as not to be totally obvious. The residual damage is having our domain banned, and then trying to contact the other ISPs to clear that ban. This can some times take days. A severe pain in the ass. If they use our mail servers, we can put a maximum sender limit, and that stops them a bit. They then usually migrate to another national ISP with higher limits. Sometimes they use open relays in other countries... but the source ip is from our domain, so we have to shut down the account, then contact the foreign admin of the open relay... and again that can take days, plus several interpreters......etc....etc.
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SPAM is used as opposed to spam, for the emphasis on horrible processed material more akin to the Hormel attrocity.
I'm still waiting to see *new* clear spam, or vermicelli spam... also known as sporm... then I will know hell hath no fury like the abortions of human stupidity..
Its fairly simple....
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Compile a library of common addresses, put a domain name behind it... spam away... the ones that give an undeliverable response are disgarded from that domain library....
when the spammer changes isps, or sells these mailing lists.. the victims will keeps on getting bombarded... even if they never gave out their address at all... if you are stupid enough enough to have a common name.. then you WILL get spammed..
ie: free@your isp.com, or sex@yourisp.com
its not the isps fault you people are dolts.. don't blame them for "selling their users email addresses"
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I have worked in the security department of a major ISP for quite some time. The response time is not the issue. We could shut down a spammer within 15 minutes of recieving the first complaint. The problem is with fake accounts. A spammer will use stolen credit cards and do online signups with these, set up a mailserver on their computer and spam away the first time they log on and continue until we get the the NMC to kill their connection. By the time we have tracked down their account and have all the paperwork done, (which is just a few minutes) they already have another account waiting, and use a different VPOP, so as not to be totally obvious. The residual damage is having our domain banned, and then trying to contact the other ISPs to clear that ban. This can some times take days. A severe pain in the ass. If they use our mail servers, we can put a maximum sender limit, and that stops them a bit. They then usually migrate to another national ISP with higher limits. Sometimes they use open relays in other countries... but the source ip is from our domain, so we have to shut down the account, then contact the foreign admin of the open relay... and again that can take days, plus several interpreters......etc....etc.
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So response time is not always the main issue.
..remember kids hormel is the devil
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