Hi,
A better way might be to add a constant to all the addresses. Such as,
in the case of Eric, "Eric" 123ewdysar@whatever.com The "123" is added
to all addresses, and removed manually before sending emails. This might
also have the benefit of filling the spammers mailbox with returned
messages.
Another method I use is to have a space at either side of the "@" in the
email addresses, so that automated 'spiders' cannot read it, as they are
probably searching for any @ sign and close adjacent text.
In the case of a Group being sent a link to a website, this might be
deliberate. All webpages are rated by Google, which gives a benchmark of
their value, known as Page Rank. Likewise, part of that value is
enhanced by the number of 'links in' to that website, and further
enhanced by such links coming from high ranking sources, such as if I
had a blog and the address link to my blog was posted on the (highly
rated) New York Times website, then my blog rating would at some point
get re-evaluated by Google, and made higher.
In our case, I believe that the link in a message would appear on the
main group webpage, as well as being distributed email. Such links might
be 'paid links'. This is a method used to put websites into a higher
position in search results.
John
2b. Re: Spam - and something to do about it
Posted by: "Eric" ewdysar@yahoo.com ewdysar
Date: Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:47 am ((PDT))
I'm guessing that Kirk didn't send this message. There have been a large
number of "hijacked" accounts in Yahoo recently and spam like this is
showing up everywhere.
My account was hacked about a couple of months ago and my Yahoo contact
list was used to send out a few spam blasts. You didn't see any of that
here because I don't have any of my Yahoo group addresses in my contact
list.
If you use a mail server like Yahoo or Gmail that has a contact list
that you can access from different computers, that contact list is out
in the "cloud". The hacking is done on their servers and can happen
when you're not logged into the system.
So I would suggest that everyone remove any Yahoo group email addresses
from your contact lists (it's not like you need to write emails to a
Yahoo group, most people can just hit reply to their group notification
or post a message inside the Yahoo group itself) so that if your contact
list gets hacked, you won't be sending spam to hundreds (maybe
thousands) of people's mailboxes with a single adddress.
Fair winds (with less spam),
Eric
Marina del Rey, CA
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