Apparently the porno spammers are into high tech now."Objective-C",
below, is not a common reference. Since this is the only Objective-C
email I deal with, I guess they picked up my email address from this
mailing list. I hope Apple has a way of blocking their access before
others are similarly afflicted. Who knows what other porn lists
they'll sell this to?
This is way off topic of cocoa-dev.... and the connection to Apple's
mailing list is not nearly as solid as you might easily assume.
(1) If any email with your mailing address has *ever* been forwarded
*anywhere* that has ended up in a search index, your email address
*will* receive spam. A quick google search reveals that your email
address appears once in some random OpenOffice archive from Feb 2005.
Consider that email address tainted.
(2) Spammers have long been grabbing random chunks of text from random
sources to create their spam. It was inevitable that it would end up
with Objective-C noise in it, especially now that Objective-C and Mac
OS X related technologies are spread much further than they were a few
years ago. Taking a chunk of that particular quote about Objective-C
and plugging it into Google surrounded by quotes reveals that it shows
up in a handful of weblog style "aggregators" that look to be attempts
at (a) traffic magnets and (b) are quite likely great scraping targets
for pulling random phrases to bypass spam filters.
Recently, I have seen a ton of pump-n-dump stock scam spam that has
included several hundred lines of random man pages at the bottom of
it. Now, random news of New York City seems to be the rage along with
information about bike locks.
As per cocoa-dev, I'm happy to see that the bloody :virus: messages
seem to be gone.
