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Number   :  3210
Date     :  2002-12-08
Author   :  Richard Kirkham
Subject  :  Re: Fw:  check this out! [*OT]
Size(KB) :  4


Copies to yahoo might get them shut down at least
temporarily anyway.

Rick


--- Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> Hi, All:
> 
> Nobody likes the junk Emails that pollutes the
> Internet
> world. I'm all for tougher laws criminalizing such
> acts.
> 
> As to the current crop of the junkmails that come to
> the
> subscribers (the one that David mentioned), it is
> probably
> done by an individual who took the trouble of
> automating the
> registration. The prankster first obtain a free
> Email address
> from @yahoo.com (always a randomly chosen string of
> 12 letters),
> and register to our group as a member, then, post
> the junk
> mail to "reach out" to some few hundred subscribing
> members.
> 
> It is quite pathetic. What I've been doing as a
> moderator
> was to enable the new-member notification mechanism
> that
> I receive Emails for new member registration as well
> as
> membership cancellation. I keep eye on the new ones
> with
> suspicious Email names (so far the only one is with
> 12-letter
> @yahoo.com, but I expect the scheme will get more
> variety
> in the future).
> 
> Usually, I kick out such an intruder from the
> membership
> before it posts a junk mail to the group. For some
> reason,
> I found there is a substantial delay between its
> registration
> as a new member and posting its first junk message.
> Normally, I will act on time. But, if I overlook or
> do not act promptly, you will see the junk mail. 
> Still,
> as soon as I recognize such a mail, I remove the
> junk message
> from the archived list and kick out the offending
> member.
> All of this process is by hand. I get just a few
> notifications
> from Yahoo for new members come and go. And, I'm
> vigilant
> in checking the email address, counting the number
> of letters
> (12 is the magic number so far) if it is @yahoo.com,
> and
> make a subjective judgement whether the name is
> sufficiently
> "random". So far, most of them had just too awkward
> combinations of consonant letters for human to
> choose.
> 
> wtufgbvajqls@y...
> 
> This was easy, I removed it two days ago. But, some
> are
> a bit harder to judge;
> 
> rvcdboklankr@y...
> 
> This was a bit closer to manmade name but I zapped
> this.
> 
> Anyway, I just wanted you to know I'm doing all I
> can
> on this issue.
> 
> It may be a matter of time before I will have to
> make the
> membership to be one-notch tighter than what it
> already is;
> that a new member will become eligible to post a
> message
> only after his membership is approved by me (the
> moderator).
> This loses immediacy of new member being able to
> post his
> first message.
> 
> My advice to all is that just ignore them and do not
> increase any traffic by making any discussion of
> this subject (that are also "noise" to our
> discussion group).
> 
> Still, I consider the few thousand archived messages
> in this group (which is searchable by keywords) is
> our assets.
> 
> Kan Yabumoto
>
============================================================
> 
> At 2002-12-04 09:25, you wrote:
> >I object to mail with no information relative to
> the topic of the mail - 
> >list. For all I know the cryptic name of the
> originater may be a source 
> >of a virus. Does this list check for viruses
> before posting? It seems to 
> >me that there is already enough traffic. On other
> lists, if a message is 
> >sent not relative to the list the use of [OT]
> which means off topic may 
> >be ignored by members. Another interesting use of
> the Subject is to add 
> >[WISH] to a subject in which one might ask for
> added features of xxcopy.
> >
> >Those are my thoughts on the subject. Has any one
> else have a opinion?
> >
> >David G Connett
> >dgconnett@e...
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: wtufgbvajqls
> >To: xxcopy@yahoogroups.com
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 6:08 PM
> >Subject: [xxcopy] check this out!
> >
> >
> >http://www.geocities.com/ycpkonzatirj/index.html
> >
> >
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