Re: [chairs] SPAM

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

Dave,

Much worse.

70% of the Spam I'm getting is malicious - with viruses, trojans,
and similar destructive attachments - not to mention attempts
to fraudulently obtain identity stealing information.  Only the
remaining 30% is actually trying to sell something.

And 'Yes' - the malicious stuff is being made to look like it
came from people that have either received email or sent
email to my mailbox, or from my service provider or a
major financial institution.

I would definately like to see these people being exposed
as Duane noted - in anyway possible.  It would be even
better if we could enable law enforcement efforts too.

DW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cruikshank, David W" <david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com>
To: <karl.best@oasis-open.org>; "Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@Sun.COM>
Cc: <chairs@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:42 PM
Subject: RE: [chairs] SPAM


And so it's not just the span that I see.....I think my email address is
being harvested to send spam to other sites.....and I get notices from them
that I am sending spam...Is this consistant with what others are seeing??

thx...Dave Cruikshank
Technical Fellow - Graphics/Digital Data Interchange
Boeing Commercial Airplane
206.544.8876, fax 206.544.9590
david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Karl F. Best [mailto:karl.best@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:49 AM
To: Eve L. Maler
Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [chairs] SPAM


That's part of what I'm trying to figure out: how often and how
important is it for the guy on the street to be able to respond to a
person who wrote a message? When would someone respond privately rather
than by sending a comment to the TC?

-Karl


Eve L. Maler wrote:
> I had been assuming that the Slashdot email-obscuring mechanism was
> automatic, though I can understand your lack of interest in it if it's
> not automatic...
>
> Does the OASIS identifier idea mean that ordinary OASIS members won't be
> able to look at the archive and figure out how to contact someone who
> wrote a particular mail message?  That would be a real shame.
>
>     Eve
>
> Karl F. Best wrote:
>
>> David:
>>
>> I like the idea. It would require a bit of extra processing for each
>> message to match the sender with the Kavi database. The big problem,
>> though, is that we don't have membership numbers; the "key" or unique
>> identifier in the database is the email address.
>>
>> But this might have some merit anyway. We'll think about what might be
>> possible.
>>
>> -Karl
>
>


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