Re: [ga] WHOIS email addresses and spam: some stats

[Doug Mehus <dmehus@shaw.ca>]

I believe it. And, another big source of spam: web-based archives of messages from mailing lists.

Personally, my amount of spam has increased. I probably receive, on average, five spam messages per day or about 30 per week.

Best,
Doug

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Doug Mehus
dmehus@shaw.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@yahoo.com>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: [ga] WHOIS email addresses and spam: some stats

Hello,

CDT has done a study on sources of spam (including emails from the
WHOIS database), with a report (PDF format) at:

http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.pdf

It turns out that in the period of the study (6 months), they only
received 1 spam from WHOIS. A policy of rotating WHOIS email addresses
regularly, using 'disposable' email addresses, as some registrars have
started to do, would probably alleviate most of the concerns over
"mining" the WHOIS database by spammers.

Other sources, like posting e-mail addresses on websites, turn out to
be far more important in attracting spam.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.autoinsurance.ca/
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