[plug] OT: Perth SPAM

[Paul Day]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Ryan wrote:
> iiNet should care because this is not an isolated incident and in my case
> the email address it was sent to is the default email address for my account
> which is overridden by my domain and I guarantee that email address has NOT
> been written, verbalised or referenced to in any means by myself or anybody
> except iiNet.
>
> Somebody within iiNet has presumably leaked my email address
> out with tons of others to some 'highest bidder'.  Sounds stupid?  Well it
> is the
> only way that my particular iiNet email address could have got onto this large
> Australian SPAM campaign.  And no, I never gave iiNet permission, implied or
> otherwise to do that.

What complete bollucks.

One of the many easy wasy to spam is get a dictionary of common words,
names and anything else that people might use as a username and then spam
each of those @somebigisp.com.

iiNet is at the size where this is now regularly happening. They've got
over 50k users and spammers know that. In the last 12 months, spammers
have often targeted them with these massive spams, which often brings
iiNet's incoming mail server to it's knees as it processes all the spam.

I think iiNet now have an RBL filter on their qmail servers to help avoid
this type of thing these days. Not too sure - don't use their mail sevrer
anymore due to delivery delays.

Don't blame the ISP with conspiracy theories when it's not their fault.
Spend your energy blaming the spammer or the stupid open relay. iiNet
might be a little dodgey these days, but they're not un-ethical in this
regard.

PD

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