Re: hacker??

From: squirtlesmom (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/06/03 

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 09:02:23 -0800

>-----Original Message-----
>In article <084a01c3a41a$9c5cfab0$a301280a@phx.gbl>,
>squirtlesmom@hotmail.com says...
>> I want to give a great big hug to both of you. I
searched
>> and found the entries on 10/31 and did it. As problems
>> go, this was not a huge one, but not knowing that much
>> about computers I did not know if it would grow and
>> besides that - it was really pissing me off. :)
>
>Is 'squirtle' as 'kawaii' as his name sounds? Ah, never
mind that. But,
>unless you are inviting private contact by email, you
might want to
>reconsider using a real email address in posts to this
group. Although you
>find it by HTTP service, many of us get her by NNTP
service. The groups are
>carried publicly on a slough of NNTP servers, and
harvested regularly for
>"fresh, new" email addresses by spammers, not to mention
that nasty Swen
>bug!
>
>I haven't tested the Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
interface, lately, so I
>don't know if you can execute a "Reply" and get my
working address. But I
>use a bad posting address. I used to use
<koko@soko.invalid>, but the new
>one actually points to a loopback address, so a badly
configure SMTP engine
>will try to eat the mail itself, as it tries to find me!
>
>You can form such a "spam-and-virus-proof" address by
using the .invalid TLD
>for any logical looking address, or using "example.com"
as your domain name.
>Both are reserved as non-working names for live testing
on the Internet; and
>work very well to block such nastiness. Microsoft is
supposed to be
>preloading <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>, which
is not configured as
>a hostname on the Internet. Not as nasty as
<*@blackhole.aosake.net> because
>it doesn't have an MX record configured to loopback; but
any of those
>example domains will cause the malicious SMTP delivery to
fail.
>
>But the address you used will probably now become a Swen-
and-Spam magnet.
>
>--
>Norman
>~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
>~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
>~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint
>.
>I think I want to thank you although I don't understand
most of what you said. I guess I am too trusting, I am
here to get help, not get hurt.
Thanks
Tracy

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