From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262169AbTICNf7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:35:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262198AbTICNf7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:35:59 -0400 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:54926 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262169AbTICNf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:35:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:35:56 +0200 From: Herbert Poetzl To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: Linux kernel Subject: [OT] Re: SPAM Message-ID: <20030903133556.GC23293@DUK2.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: "Richard B. Johnson" , Linux kernel References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.