anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

Sat May 4 01:39:11 UTC 2002

No I think your message illustrates things pretty well.  I guess the 
fundimental differenc here is not only does it cost usually very little 
to receive these messages it costs even less infact dramatically to send 
spam.  It seems there is no real reason for the spammer to be concerned 
with whether the mail is properly targeted or not so a full on flood is 
possible and the leads generated by this flood percentage wise have to 
be many factors less than the percentage of success in snailmail.

On 3 May 
2002, Paul Vixie wrote:

> 
> > ... I'm not sure entirely what the big deal with spam is.  Honestly sure
> > I get it like everyone else, in some of my accounts more than others
> > ... I have a delete key ...
> 
> in the time between when you sent the above, and when i read it, the
> following messages were added to my mailbox:
> 
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>  10  05/03 sjtayhard at hotmail  Be Hard as a Rock.. Make her come and come../<<
>  11  05/03 "AEMI"             ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina
>  12  05/03 "AEMI"             ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina
>  13  05/03 stayhayrd at hotmail  Be Hard as a Rock.. Make her come and come .. V
>  14  05/03 sxtayhard at hotmail  Vaniqa .. Order today You Unwanted Hair Will be
>  15  05/03 zstayhard at hotmail  The Harder you are The More She Will Come.. Via
>  16  05/03 stayrhard at hotmail  Take the Blue Pill.. and show her how far the R
>  17  05/03 sthayhard at hotmail  Better for Him Better for Her.. . Order Viagra 
>  18  05/03 fobare at imcnet.net  Quality Affordable Hunts!<<<html> <head> <title
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>  20  05/03 "AEMI"             ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina
>  21  05/03 stadyhard at hotmail  Take the Blue Pill.. and show her how far the R
>  22  05/03 "Kitty Dials"      Record Low MORTGAGE rates! *Act Fast* 11551<<<h
>  23  05/03 "AEMI"             ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina
>  24  05/03 "AEMI"             ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina
>  25  05/03 stayhnard at hotmail  Online Pharmacy..Any Medication you Need Lowest
>  26  05/03 "Val"              (&~) You only THINK you're a U.S. citizen! %8t<
> 
> it comes in 24 hours a day, 365.24 days per year, at about that rate.  and
> that's after subscribing to several source-address-based rejection filters,
> and rejecting some additional sources.  (otherwise it would be 4X worse, at
> least according to my syslog.)  here's a short term histogram:
> 
> lartomatic=# SELECT DATE(entered),COUNT(*) FROM spam
> 	WHERE DATE(entered) >= '2002-04-01'::DATE
> 	GROUP BY DATE(entered)
> 	ORDER BY DATE(entered) DESC;
>     date    | count 
> ------------+-------
>  2002-05-03 |    78		-- (partial)
>  2002-05-02 |   111
>  2002-05-01 |   176
>  2002-04-30 |   122
>  2002-04-29 |    99
>  2002-04-28 |    65
>  2002-04-27 |   128
>  2002-04-26 |   143
>  2002-04-25 |   107
>  2002-04-24 |   107
>  2002-04-23 |    73
>  2002-04-22 |   121
>  2002-04-21 |    72
>  2002-04-20 |   101
>  2002-04-19 |   104
>  2002-04-18 |    89
>  2002-04-17 |   100
>  2002-04-16 |    78
>  2002-04-15 |   119
>  2002-04-14 |   113
>  2002-04-13 |   116
>  2002-04-12 |   167
>  2002-04-11 |   167
>  2002-04-10 |   100
>  2002-04-09 |   166
>  2002-04-08 |    81
>  2002-04-07 |   105
>  2002-04-06 |   115
>  2002-04-05 |   116
>  2002-04-04 |   125
>  2002-04-03 |    91
>  2002-04-02 |    88
>  2002-04-01 |    97
> (33 rows)
> 
> go ahead and "Just Hit Delete" if you want.
> 