[Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites

[Mark Kelley]

I've been using a program called MailWasher to handle spam.  It lets me
preview my email before I download it with Outlook.  I can ID spam emails
and have MailWasher bounce them back to the sender as if my email address is
invalid.  Since I've been using it, I've seen a drastic reduction in spam
emails as my email address is starting to be tagged as invalid.   You can
download a free copy of MailWasher from http://www.mailwasher.com.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Ian Fisher
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 6:29 PM
> To: 'James White'; 'SHOtimes Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites
>
>
> Many times the unsub link is to a dummy mailbox that quickly overflows.
> All you are doing is confirming that the email they sent was sent to a
> legit addresses and you might be spammed even more.
>
> Ian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of James White
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 4:31 PM
> To: dmall@mwonline.net; SHOtimes Mailing List; V8 SHO Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites
>
>
> My companies' website has been hit by this type of worm many times.
> Because the mail addressed to jimw@morincorp.com is transferred to
> greensho@crown.net , I also get a lot of spam.  From porn to credit
> cards, to stainless steel coils.
>
> The only real problem is that many of them don't even seem to have a
> place to unsubcribe.
>
> regards, Jim White - greensho@crown.net
> Valparaiso, Indiana
> '93  5 SPEED   278k few mods
> '95  5 SPEED   241k lots of mods
> "double clutch"  it's good for both you and your SHO
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
> To: "SHOtimes Mailing List" <shotimes@autox.team.net>; "V8 SHO Mailing
> List" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:30 PM
> Subject: [Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites
>
>
> > This week, there was a start of spam to people that had e-mail
> > addresses posted on the SHOclub.com web site and classifieds.  The
> > emails indicated that the SHO Registry had given them the e-mail
> > address.
> >
> > This was not true, but our site was in a way responsible. Please let
> > me explain as it has been explained to me by my son, and the web
> > master.
> >
> > The SHOregistry.com web site goes directly to SHOclub.com.
> >
> > SHO Club, as I have mentioned does NOT give out addresses, sell
> > address or information to anyone, nor do we list our membership in any
>
> > way that can be a problem, but apparently an automated worm type
> > program is capable of going to web pages and extracting just the
> > e-mail addresses whenever it picks up the @ symbol indicating an
> > e-mail address.
> >
> > Thus a program hit SHORegistry.com and thus SHOclub.com and picked up
> > all the e-mail addressees in the classifieds, and maybe in the links
> > section.
> >
> > We have now solved this problem, at least for this type of spammer
> > software, I hope it is solved permanently.
> >
> > We have changed the way we list the e-mail addresses on the pages so
> > they can't be picked up by this type of software, but your potential
> > buyers/sellers will be able to contact you through what looks like a
> > "link".
> >
> > We are in the process of changing all the entries to this type of
> > format, but it takes time.  All NEW entries are done this way starting
>
> > late this last week.
> >
> > Although this problem (additional spam to some of your
> > e-mail inboxes) is not our direct responsibility and fault,
> > I am sorry to in any way add to the junk that we all get. Filters on
> > e-mail programs help, but are not a cure-all.  I delete probably 30-40
>
> > spam messages a day from my own account.
> >
> > Please let others that may have mentioned this to you on other lists,
> > (techsho is one that I didn't have the address to handy) that
> > SHOclub.com has solved the problem, at least for the future.  For the
> > e-mails that have been grabbed by this one outfit, the damage is done,
>
> > but we will get all of them changed as soon as we can, and NEW
> > listings will be protected.
> >
> > SHOclub.com classifieds have become the most visited and successful
> > classifieds on the web for our cars and parts, and I appreciate the
> > support that you have given the club and our web site.  I was not
> > happy this happened, but I wasn't aware that programs did this.  Now I
>
> > am smarter, and I thank my son for helping me solve the dilemma.
> >
> > Reply off-list if you have questions about this.
> >
> > Don Mallinson, President
> > SHO Club
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