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  • Subject: Re: Porno spam, from this mailing list
  • From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:56:41 -0800

On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:02 PM, N!K wrote:
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.

b.bum
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