RE: Liaison Communiques (confused as spam)
RE: Liaison Communiques (confused as spam)
- Subject: RE: Liaison Communiques (confused as spam)
- From: MUG NEWS <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:32:04 -0400
Gary wrote, in a reply to Del:
> Funny thing happened. With your email was another from
> another MUG asking me to stop the spam.
> I wrote them, "I try to walk a thin line.... yada, yada
This is a familiar post.
The Regional Liaisons need to make clear their activities to the
UG representative so that legitimate email is not confused as
spam. When they become the representative, they accept the
responsibility of receiving Liaison's mail for the group.
However, on the other hand, in our Anti-spam efforts, the research
is now showing that a large percentage of spam is generated by
the spam bots using "related" names/addresses of real people.
(Where, once upon a time they used aliased names in the "from")
If recipients of the Liaisons' email happens to fall on an email
pop received by a Windows machine running Microsoft email client,
that email address will assuredly be used by the spam bots
to send more spam.
With this latest worm masquerading as a Microsoft patch coming
directly from Microsoft, the number of infected systems has
doubled over the past two weeks. It is very likely that names
of anyone sending to an infected machine will then be used as
the "sender" of spam. Many people are even seeing a resurgence
of spam being sent from themselves!
Instruct your members to be careful when assuming that the "From"
address is the true sender of the spam. In most cases it's not.
:-)
Fred
Fred Showker
Editor-In-Chief
MUG (AACUG Mac User Guide)
http://www.aacug.org/MUG/
AACUG Anti-Spam Advocacy:
http://www.aacug.org/UCE/
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