Not our first. I deleted one a coupla weeks ago, but yeah, bummer.
Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.
Spike ,'Showtime'
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
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.
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.
meara - Nov 26, 2002 1:37:48 pm PST #883 of 10001
So even if you've never posted your email address anywhere, or given it to anyone, it can still end up with the spammers.
WOW. That's really, really depressing.
Laura - Nov 26, 2002 1:42:13 pm PST #884 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Not so much unique names, but general names like sales or info or admin get a ton of junk. Although back when I let the stuff through I would get stuff for LauraA LauraB LauraC and so forth.
flea - Nov 26, 2002 1:44:40 pm PST #885 of 10001
information libertarian
I get tons of spam on my .edu account. You'd figure a university could screen the damn things, no? I have given it up as my spam account, and now it's the address I hand out to strangers.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 26, 2002 1:49:37 pm PST #886 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I get asian porn spam at the university account for ESL.
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2002 1:52:35 pm PST #887 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can see admin might get Rumplestilkskin, but admins too? I'd have figured that rarer.
Either way, can't hurt to be safe.