On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:51:37 -0500
Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote:
> If you look back I may have beat that. ;~)
> It's funny to see an answer to an old post like this but sometimes it
> can be educational to everyone if not the original poster.
> You sometimes have to wonder if the person that made the original
> post is even still alive. :!)
I can tell you this and let you decide
these replies to old posts I think are spam precursors
they are trying to get accepted into lists and thus bypass
spam detection later by fooling the lists/groups into whitelisting
them
they wait awhile then use most of the same data in the original
mail header and spam some group/maillist
replies help them with their deed
On 3/19/2015 1:14 AM, Electric Comet wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:51:37 -0500
> Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote:
>
>> If you look back I may have beat that. ;~)
>> It's funny to see an answer to an old post like this but sometimes it
>> can be educational to everyone if not the original poster.
>> You sometimes have to wonder if the person that made the original
>> post is even still alive. :!)
>
> I can tell you this and let you decide
>
> these replies to old posts I think are spam precursors
> they are trying to get accepted into lists and thus bypass
> spam detection later by fooling the lists/groups into whitelisting
> them
>
> they wait awhile then use most of the same data in the original
> mail header and spam some group/maillist
>
> replies help them with their deed
Well certainly some of them are but almost all of us here are guilty of
replying before looking at the original post date at one time or another.
Electric Comet <[email protected]> wrote in news:medpi2$bbu$17
@dont-email.me:
> I can tell you this and let you decide
>
> these replies to old posts I think are spam precursors
> they are trying to get accepted into lists and thus bypass
> spam detection later by fooling the lists/groups into whitelisting
> them
>
> they wait awhile then use most of the same data in the original
> mail header and spam some group/maillist
>
> replies help them with their deed
No, Usenet doesn't work that way. Maillists have
whitelists but spam filtering on Usenet uses more
sophisticated techniques (unless you use Google
Groups, who don't appear to do any spam filtering).
All that replying here does is make the poster look
a bit foolish if they didn't notice the date.
John