[Shotimes] emailspam from SHO web sites

[James White]

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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