NOBODY EVER ANSWERS QUESTIONS TO THIS LIST

Wed Dec 17 12:59:46 GMT 2008

Oh, you meant from the list...sorry, I didn't think of that.  Yeah, we
can kick him from the list, I just thought queuing up and everyone
having a kick at his backside would be a nice Christmas present for
everyone here.  Silly me.

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Alex
Neuman van der Hans
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:42 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: NOBODY EVER ANSWERS QUESTIONS TO THIS LIST

You don't mean from the list, right? I can understand why thoughts of  
physically doing it might pop up... ;-)

On Dec 17, 2008, at 7:19 AM, "Steven Andrews"
<sandrews at andrewscompanies.com 
 > wrote:

> Will someone please kick him?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of  
> Bjorgen
> T. Eatinger
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:36 AM
> To: Bjorgen T. Eatinger; mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: RE: NOBODY EVER ANSWERS QUESTIONS TO THIS LIST
>
> What the hell is the stupid mailing list for if nobody every fucking
> answers it??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjorgen T. Eatinger
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 8:18 PM
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Cc: Bjorgen T. Eatinger
> Subject: NOBODY EVER ANSWERS QUESTIONS TO THIS LIST
>
> 1. NOBODY EVER ANSWERS QUESTIONS TO THIS LIST---Why?
>
> 2. There has been (for at least the last 3 weeks) a recent huge  
> flood of
> emails that are setup to "appear" to have originated from the same  
> email
> address which the SPAM is being sent to, and the addresses are  
> perfectly
> valid addresses stored on our email server (NOT ACCOUNTS, but valid
> ALIASES).
>
> For example a valid alias on our mail server would be:
> booking at edenaudio.com
>
> The SPAM email is SENT to that email address and is also setup to COME
> from that address.
>
> Has there been any discussion or attempts to get rid of this most
> annoying new type of SPAM?  I don't see it as very difficult to catch,
> as the following conditions are always TRUE in all cases:
>
> a. SAME FROM ADDRESS AS THE TO ADDRESS (this is normally only done  
> when
> testing)
>
> b. Almost every email contains "status" in the subject
>
> c. Every email always contains HTML and the words "click here" in  
> every
> one (see below)
>
> I believe any one of these items would work to stop this flood of  
> email
> (especially b or c).  Can you please let me know how I could implement
> any one or all of these methods?
>
> Thank you!
>
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