Hey Nick,
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:23:28PM +0900, Nick May wrote:
> 2) I have suddenly started getting spam to my keitai - despite my address
> not being something that one would expect to be auto generated. Any
> guesses as to how the spam merchants are generating them?
I usually avoid common names and all Japanese alphabet combinations,
plus all of those with numbers. Looks like they just generate them
like this for the most part as most users do something like akemi29
or something similar.
> 3) Possibly related to 2, but do any other list members occasionally get
> short messages, sent from a keitai, from a Japanese list member in
> response to, but not related to, messages sent to the list....? The
> messages are - direct, and in such otoko-poi Japanese my Japanese female
> friends have difficulty translating them. If so, I would be curious to
> compare notes. I can't believe this guy REALLY directs all of keitai-l to
> his mobile, but it does seem that way.... Or possibly my mail server has
> been hacked.....
Mika removed this guy from the keitai-l mail list yesterday. Looked like
he subscribed and then didn't quite understand why he was getting all
that English mail to his keitai. Not quite sure why he did that in the
first place, since subscribing to the list is a 2 phase process so he
must have known what he was doing. Seems he thought it was spam and
was probably wondering how so many people "generated" his address :)
Tom.
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Received on Wed Jan 30 14:53:58 2002