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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:02 am Post subject: Receiving spam trough Matronics |
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A while ago I signed up to Matronics, as the Yahoo groups were starting to
get lots of spam. I used a unique e-mail address to sign up. Now I am
starting to receive spam through that address. Is there any way to trace
back who 'leaked' matronics email addresses?
Rob
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Matt Dralle
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: Receiving spam trough Matronics |
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At 09:56 AM 7/29/2007 Sunday, you wrote:
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A while ago I signed up to Matronics, as the Yahoo groups were starting to get lots of spam. I used a unique e-mail address to sign up. Now I am starting to receive spam through that address. Is there any way to trace back who 'leaked' matronics email addresses?
Rob
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I believe this issue is really someone(s) that is subscribed to the given List have been infected with a spam reflector "virus". The virus will glean email addresses from the victim's inbox and when it receives a spam message from the mothership, it proceeds to resend it to everyone it the local mailboxes.
Unfortunately, spam is a fact of life on the Internet. To give you a data point, Matronics has a Barracuda spam appliance that all incoming email is filtered through before entering the network. The matronics.com domain receives on the average over 70,000 spam emails each day! And there are perhaps 400-600 legitimate emails. That would be a ratio of about 99.3% spam email coming in.
There is really no way to hide from spam anymore. If you send emails from an email account, you're going to get spam.
At least you'll note that you've never gotten a spam message from any of the Matronics Email Lists directly. Fortunately, I still have the ability to regulate that pretty well.
Matt Dralle
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Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551
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Bob McC
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 258
Location: Toronto, ON
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| Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:07 am Post subject: Receiving spam trough Matronics |
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Just as a further data point, I have an e-mail address which I have never
used for any purpose nor have I revealed it to anyone. ( I wanted to reserve
that particular address for future use) I receive SPAM on that address as
well. When I complained to my service provider, assuming they must have
leaked my address, they told me there are programmes used by spammers which
generate random addresses hoping to get a hit. Those that don't bounce are
presumed legitimate addresses and get put on the spamming lists to target.
Bob McC
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