North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Blocking mail from bad places
That makes sense, and matches up with my experience... you also have "amateur" spammers just doing stuff manually (as well as spammers paying people pennies a page to input CAPTCHA responses). Another issue is that the unsolicited contact paradigm blurs a bit, when you have musicians and promoters and organizations with causes, etc. all asking to be "added as a friend"... the situation becomes one of those "I know spam when I see it." ones... Ken Simpson wrote: Some of it is quite sophisticated: full blown "instant" profiles with fake comments ... the smarter spammers actually make the profile look real (often lifting material from legit user profiles), and then
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