[ale] OT: Has your spam increased?

[Geoffrey]

I set up mgetty to accept faxes based on caller id.  I was getting about 
5-10 spam faxes a month.

Chris Fowler wrote:
> I've got a new one for you.  Efax.com.  I stopped using my efax number
> for months.  Over time the spam in tthe form of faxes stopped.  I had
> something faxed to me last week and now I'm getting spam faxes.  I wander
> if efax sends spam to active fax numbers and not inactive ones.  I kept
> the number but stoped using it.  Then I needed a fax and now spam.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bao C. Ha [mailto:baoha at sensoria.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:15 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] OT: Has your spam increased?
> 
> 
> I think they just use google and web crawlers.
> 
> I have a Debian e-mail address that I have never used.  The
> only way that these spammers can get it is either through
> google caching of the Debian web site or collecting these
> through web spiders (of Debian web site).
> 
> I do detect some desperations as they seem to try very hard
> to break through my blackhole lists: ordb, orisoft, ...  It
> seems that the people using the spam list are demanding a
> tangible return from their "advertisements."  Good thing?
> 
> Bao
> 
> 
>>Obviously the webmail providers are working with spammers.
>>Not only do
>>spammers have access to users email addresses but
>>demographics (At least
>>the demographics that users don't lie about).  What I wonder is if the
>>webmail providers are collecting email addresses for the
>>people webmail
>>users write.  It seems pretty likely that this could be happening.
>>Does anyone know if this is happening
>>
>>
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