[OT] Re: SPAM

[Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:45:51AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that
> they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is
> the condition upon which users get "free" service. However,
> they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This
> means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your
> wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately
> be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc.
> Be forewarned.
> 
> I recently put a new Linux machine "on the air". To see if
> email worked, I used my yahoo account, N26825@yahoo.com to
> send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40
> SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE
> the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com,
> but it's a logical black hole.

well, otherwise they wouldn't have something to
fight, together with M$ and AOL ...

> Again, be warned. They ARE out to get you, even if you are
> paranoid!
> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips).
>             Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.