From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: SPAM
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:45:51 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0309030835180.7233@chaos> (raw)
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.
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.
next reply other threads:[~2003-09-03 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-03 12:45 Richard B. Johnson [this message]
2003-09-03 13:35 ` [OT] SPAM Herbert Poetzl
2003-09-03 13:43 ` SPAM Maciej Soltysiak
2003-09-04 7:41 ` [OT] SPAM Helge Hafting
2004-09-21 13:46 SPAM Piotr Perak
2004-09-21 14:42 ` SPAM Gene Heskett
2011-11-29 11:15 Spam Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi
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