Garbage Spam

Never use your real email address in newsgroups. There are tools spammers use to "walk" the message threads to "harvest" email addresses.

no no, I mean the like 400 spam messages that just got added to this newsgroup tonite.

WOW I didnt realize my REAL email addy was being displayed here!

yea, I saw that after I read your post. Makes one wonder why someone would go through all that trouble to post nonsensical gibberish. It's probably some adolescent that wrote a clever program that puts random words into sentences and paragraphs and then posts its output to the NG overnight.

Headers say they all came from the same IP address 216.15.35.136

If it's not forged, this belongs to:

OrgName: RCN Corporation OrgID: RCN Address: 105 Carnegie Center City: Princeton StateProv: NJ PostalCode: 08540 Country: US

NetRange: 216.15.0.0 - 216.15.127.255 CIDR: 216.15.0.0/17 NetName: RCN-BLK-21 NetHandle: NET-216-15-0-0-1 Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation NameServer: AUTH1.DNS.RCN.NET NameServer: AUTH2.DNS.RCN.NET NameServer: AUTH3.DNS.RCN.NET NameServer: AUTH4.DNS.RCN.NET Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE RegDate: Updated: 2002-11-08

TechHandle: ZR40-ARIN TechName: RCN Corporation TechPhone: +1-888-972-6622 TechEmail: ***@rcn.com

OrgAbuseHandle: RAD75-ARIN OrgAbuseName: RCN Abuse Department OrgAbusePhone: +1-888-972-6622 OrgAbuseEmail: *****@rcn.com

OrgNOCHandle: ZR40-ARIN OrgNOCName: RCN Corporation OrgNOCPhone: +1-888-972-6622 OrgNOCEmail: ***@rcn.com

OrgTechHandle: ZR40-ARIN OrgTechName: RCN Corporation OrgTechPhone: +1-888-972-6622 OrgTechEmail: ***@rcn.com

Google HipCrime. HipCrime was a usenet troll that developed a program that would take snippets of text and load up newsgroups like this.

However, this one particular person may not be real bright, since all the messages have the same IP. So, contacting the holder of the IP address should stop this activity, and possibly land the perp in jail for a while.

Thanks. A message has been sent to snipped-for-privacy@rr.com.

how the hell do I fix it so my real addy isn't displayed here.....I am using outlook express.......any help please???

1. Get rid of OE.

1. Go to Um...it's been a while...Tools? then accounts, then news then choose the profile. Chances are, if you used the easy set up, the profile name IS your email addy. Click preferences (it's been a while..Settings?), change the profile name to something like Default or something generic, and change the e-mail addy. If you look at my headers, you'll see my e-mail addy appears as snipped-for-privacy@ae86.GTS. Would that I could...

OR, add the phrase NOSPAM, like: snipped-for-privacy@NOSPAMae86.GTS. Then, for the people in the group that would LIKE to contact you, we would remove the NOSPAM, but the Spam machines can't. I would imagine, though that shortly someone will defeat this little trick. Another one I have seen is: snipped-for-privacy@YOURPANTIESae86.GTS. Then, you have to remove YOURPANTIES to respond! ;)

Or, make it a little more compilcated, and add a space, or a _ or a / or something that a HUMAN would know to remove but a machine might get hung on. But, these guys are getting clever, so adding an extra . might work better, like:

snipped-for-privacy@yada.com

Since a LOT of businesses use the 'dot', like when I was at GE:

snipped-for-privacy@ge.medical.com

the machines will think the . is normal and try to send with it in, and it will bounce.

Adding just about any word will throw them off.

Good Luck!

tools/ accounts/ properties......address is in one of the lower windows, put in something fake

thanks a heck of alot!!! I'll be the first to admit that I was too damn lazy to look. but I thank you nonetheless!!

while..Settings?),

Or if you have a yahoo account that you use and don't really care much about use that. I always used Yahoo to take all my mail

Glenn Beasley Chrysler tech