At 01:19 PM 4/5/97 -0700, Dan Lester wrote:
>At 02:41 PM 4/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>
>Far be it from me to complain about anything (    o-)      ), but I hereby
>nominate this joker as the most creative individual in developing
>techniques to avoid spam filters.  o-)     This is at least the third or
>fourth such posting of recent vintage.  Spose he has a script to pick
>random msgs to reply to with his spam?  Any bets on how creative some of
>the "insights" he's received have been?  o-)

I think he's been spamming this list weekly, on-and-off, for months.
The name is familiar, as is the technique of "replying" to a random post.

Can anyone tell if that is coming in through a news gateway?  I had to
set my subscription to SHORTHDR to prevent "too many mail hops" bounces
which were resulting in me losing some messages, but SHORTHDR unfortunately
also loses the origination information on all messages.  It even discards
"Message-ID:".

If it wasn't through a news gateway, maybe it's time to take one of
those mailings with full headers over to either the SPAM-L list or
the new list-abuse mailing list.

The "From:" address is AOL.COM, but by itself, this is not trustworthy
(easily forged).  But AOL watches SPAM-L, and can (and probabably will)
nuke that account *really* fast given sufficient full-header evidence
that it actually originated from there and was directly posted to this
mailing list.

I'm less certain about AOL's policies about off-topic posts to newsgroups,
however, so I'd give it less chance if a usenet post is just being
gateway'd to the mailing list, particularly if he's only using one
usenet group.

I had thought somebody had said earlier that this mailing list was
not going to be gateway'd any more.  Maybe I confused it with a different
list though.

Cheers,
Stan