ansemond.com

I spend a lot of time deleting bot-messages on this blog and on my forum. I didn’t expect quite this much online-graffiti. At least this is stuff I could fix / automate away, if I got the time.

Now someone is sending spam to people with forged ansemond.com addresses. I only know because I’m receiving bounced emails I never sent… I’ve emailed the owner of the domain which is sending them, but I’m not holding my breath.

So if you get an email that is apparently from me but that is advertising something unrelated to Find It! Keep It!… please understand that I didn’t send it.

• By default most Mail tools download images embedded in HTML mail. Apple’s Mail tool does, and Leopard’s new Mail templates can only increase this tendency.
• By embedding images with unique URLs into spam, spammers can discover which email addresses are used.
• By sending emails that are clearly spam and emails that are unlikely to be spam, a spammer can determine whether you have a spam filter.
• By sending emails that could be spam, but also could match terms in your email, a spammer can determine what other email is in your mailbox, thus for instance what your political opinions are.

This could provide an alternative explanation for the recent rash of weird spam not selling anything.