Hi,
In the past week, I had a few strange hits from a "hotmail.com" account
to my Majordomo@ address. Here is a recent snip from one of the possible
bad-boy name harvesters.
> {"Jonathan G Peppers" <jgp_4@hotmail.com>} get Private
The get and/or who, which commands don't lead to anything at my site. I
saw this last week too, from the above address and another from the same
domain. They were hitting in tandem then.
I'm looking for advice.
Here is what I did -- and what I'm going to do:
1. I sent a personal note to 2 different addresses from hotmail.com
asking for them to please identify themselves, explain what their
connection is to the topic area of the lists hosted at this site, and
told them that the "who" and "which" options have been disabled for
privacy reasons and to curb spam activities.
2. I've waited a few days. This happens again.
3. I'm telling you all (list-owners) and I'm going to put this address
into my spammers database so that I don't hear from this person again.
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Perhaps since nothing is happening with them and my lists (and our
subscribers' lists) I should just wait -- and watch -- and sting harder
at a later point in time. ??
Check your logs folks. Are you seeing these types of hits?
Does anyone have a cool Log filter to run on Majordomo? I don't make a
habit of looking too close at the logs and would like to see a red flag
or two if it was justified by some internal robot. :)
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Mark Rauterkus, Publisher, S.S.S. http://www.sportsurf.net
mrauterkus@sportsurf.net http://www.SportSurf.Net/FootNotes
FootNotes: Mac E-book authoring and distribution environment with
built-in multi-media, lan, web, internet and e-mail capabilities.
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