ita, could we move the LAista list?
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Kat - Nov 25, 2002 6:01:47 pm PST #873 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Typo Boy - Nov 25, 2002 8:29:50 pm PST #874 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I think having an e-mail address in the title may be part of why it thinks it is spam. Also the all caps "WELCOME".
DXMachina - Nov 25, 2002 8:41:53 pm PST #875 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Actually, in poking around the junk mail filter, the list of words that it uses as indicators of spam includes the phrase "TO UNSUBSCRIBE", which appears at least a couple of times in the welcome message. That may be what put it over the top.
§ ita § - Nov 25, 2002 9:36:56 pm PST #876 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat, I'm going to wait on some answers back from tech support, and then I'll fire it off.
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2002 11:51:25 am PST #877 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
admins(at)buffistas.org just got its first spam.
Which pretty much has to mean the site's been harvested for e-mail addresses. Profiles are protected, but here's a warning against putting them in posts.
And while I'm here, anyone want a loan beyond your wildest imagination? I can hook you up.
DXMachina - Nov 26, 2002 12:19:10 pm PST #878 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Not our first. I deleted one a coupla weeks ago, but yeah, bummer.
Rob - Nov 26, 2002 1:14:01 pm PST #879 of 10001
Which pretty much has to mean the site's been harvested for e-mail addresses.
Not at all. That's the kind of email address that can easily be extracted by "Rumplestiltskin" attacks.
Not that it really matters. I just wanted to write "Rumplestiltskin".
Daisy Jane - Nov 26, 2002 1:16:36 pm PST #880 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
"Rumplestiltskin" attacks
What are these?
Laura - Nov 26, 2002 1:27:44 pm PST #881 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I get tons of mail to madeupnames at my domain name but I only accept items with valid addresses. It is somewhat inconvenient for customers who misspell our names, but keeping up with dumping the stuff was burdensome after a couple years. I now only get about a dozen offers a day for larger penii and mortgages.
Rob - Nov 26, 2002 1:36:00 pm PST #882 of 10001
"Rumplestiltskin" attacks
What are these?
They are email address harvesting attacks where a spammer pretends to send email to a bunch of made-up email addresses on a mail server. The server responds differently if the email address actually exists on the server or not. The spammer keeps all the addresses that the server claims exist.
Some recent mail servers have defenses against this kind of attack, but many don't. So even if you've never posted your email address anywhere, or given it to anyone, it can still end up with the spammers.