Re: What's up with the mailing list spam?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



John Hinton wrote:
> I guess the big advantage to them on list is the archive now contains their 
> post and if there was a URL, a link from the CentOS archive, pretty well 
> positioned by Google and the likes, now points to their site possibly 
> moving them up on the search engines. It's actually a pretty good tactic.

The problem is that there was no advertisement inside the messages. It
could be for enumerating hosts in a bot net later on.

> Is nothing safe?

Safe from spammers? No. There's good and easy money to be made (think
about it, most work goes on at the recipient side). 

Ralph

Attachment: pgp7bHboUcuXS.pgp
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[Index of Archives]     [CentOS]     [CentOS Announce]     [CentOS Development]     [CentOS ARM Devel]     [CentOS Docs]     [CentOS Virtualization]     [Carrier Grade Linux]     [Linux Media]     [Asterisk]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Xorg]     [Linux USB]
  Powered by Linux