Spam

[Isaac OLEG]

Hello,
I sometime see proposal from China or elsewhere under the PianoTech
headers. As all these proposal are related to tools or equipment, I
believe it is addressed to the list.

What happens when windows try to open a message containing Chinese
characters, is that the system try to download automatically the
corresponding alphabet.

I am sure there is an option in Explorer where you can configure the
system so it ask you to confirm the download, so your system will not
lock up.

Beside it is more secure to have confirmations asked for all these
operations.

Regards, and Thanks, Andy Rudoff , for your work.

Isaac OLEG



> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de Andy Rudoff
> Envoye : jeudi 26 septembre 2002 09:01
> A : ilvey@sbcglobal.net; Pianotech
> Objet : Re: Spam
>
>
> >I keep getting, as you all do, spam from China with all the
> >odd characters in the Subject line.  I am wondering why PTG's
> >system can't filter it out?  It is all the same!  When I right
> >click on it and try to delete it, it says it needs to download a
> >something from Windows.  This locking up my system and I can't
> >delete it.  Yes I have virus protection...
>
> How are you determining that the SPAM is coming through
> PTG's system?  I'm subscribed to pianotech and I have not
> seen the SPAM (although I certainly get plenty addressed
> directly to me).  So are you sure you're getting it through
> a PTG list?  I checked the pianotech archives and did not see
> any SPAM messages posted recently.
>
> If you send me the headers on such a message, I might be
> able to determine what address was used to send the SPAM
> to you (depends on if your ISP updates the headers correctly,
> and it is often done wrong).  Remember that the To: and
> From: headers in a message can contain anything -- nothing
> enforces their correctness.  So that often leads us down
> the wrong track when trying to track a message.
>
> I suspect you may be getting SPAM sent to your address and
> not through the list, so of course any filtering I do on the
> PTG server would not affect it.
>
> -andy
>
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