[KYHAM] ARRL is not a source of SPAM

[Ron ++++++]

I agree.  ARRL does not ALLOW spammers access to our info.  I
did, however have to drop my arrl.net address due to mass
quantities of spam e-mail (400 + on some days) that came from
spammers. 

My local school board experienced a similar problem last week. 
They just fired up a new server to advise interested parents,
care-givers and others of school closings etc.  Early one morning
a week ago, someone hacked the system and sent out ads for a
variety of "enhancers" if you knowe what I mean.  Until the
federal laws get tough, I am afraid it will always be all of us
against the spammers.  Each trying to out software the other. 
Lord knows what it costs Al Waller to keep the spammers off of
this server right here!

73, 
Ron, KA4MAP


"David A. Smith" wrote:
> 
> Dear KY Ham,
> 
> There are a lot of false rumors concerning the ARRL Member E-Mail forwarding
> service.  In a Bulletin from this fine service dated November 1, 2003 the
> Kentucky ARRL Section Traffic Manager stated that he was dropping The free
> ARRL service because of Spam.
> 
> As an ARRL life member and ham of decades of public service within the
> Michigan Section and Great Lakes Division, I use the mail forwarding service
> with pride. The following can be found at
> http://www.arrl.org/announce/spam.html and clearly states the policy ARRL
> follows and why we get Spam.
> 
> 73 de W8YZ
> W8YZ@arrl.net <mailto:W8YZ@arrl.net>
> 
> Frequently Asked Questions About SPAM and ARRL.NET Email Accounts
> 
> What is SPAM?
> 
> SPAM is also known as "Unsolicited Commercial Email." It is email sent to
> you without your permission that offers to sell you something, asks for
> donations or tries to involve you in get-rich-quick schemes.
> Usually, SPAM is bulk-mailed to hundreds or thousands of email users.
> 
> Does ARRL provide my arrl.net address to SPAMmers?
> 
> No. ARRL does not publish or provide email addresses to any third party.
> How did the SPAM sender get my email address?
> They use "spambots," software programs that search Web pages, newsgroups and
> mailing lists automatically extracting email addresses. If your arrl.net
> address appears anywhere on the Internet, you will almost certainly get
> SPAM.
> 
> I'm sure my address isn't listed anywhere on the Internet, so the SPAMmers
> must have broken into your server!
> 
> No, they didn't. There are many arrl.net users whose arrl.net addresses have
> been in the system since its beginning who have never had any SPAM sent to
> their arrl.net address. Check for your address on the Internet search
> engines, such as Google (http://www.google.com/). Enter your full arrl.net
> address in
> their search boxes and see what you get. Try several different search
> engines. Try Google's newsgroup search (http://groups.google.com/). If they
> can find your address, the SPAMmers can, too.
> Also, since it costs them essentially nothing to send the SPAM messages,
> some SPAMmers just generate addresses at random. If only a few get delivered
> anywhere, the SPAMmers figure they're still coming out  ahead.
> 
> Why did I receive a SPAM message that wasn't even addressed to me?
> 
> The "To" line of a message actually has nothing to do with where the message
> gets delivered. That's why
> a message with your arrl.net address in the "To" line can get delivered to
> your home mailbox.
> Unfortunately, SPAMmers take advantage of that feature of Internet email to
> put deceptive addresses in
> the "To" field. The actual delivery address is transferred between Internet
> mail systems in an "envelope,"
> and it is the envelope address that specifies where the message gets
> delivered, not the "To" line of the
> message. (It's as though you sent someone a letter via the Post Office with
> one name and address on the
> envelope and a different one on the letter. Looking at the letter wouldn't
> tell anyone what the envelope
> said.)
> 
> Some Internet mail servers add the actual recipient address (from the
> "envelope") to the header lines of the message when they relay it. Most
> mail-reading programs don't normally display those header lines
> but do have some means of doing so. Check the help file for your mail
> program to find out how to display all headers.
> 
> Why are people telling me I'm sending SPAM from my arrl.net address? I'm
> not!
> 
> Just like the "To" line, the "From" line need not contain the actual address
> of the sending party. So, in order to make people want to open the SPAM
> messages they receive, the SPAMmers use made-up "From" addresses, or
> addresses from their mailing lists. If the SPAMmer uses your address in the
> "From"
> field, it looks to the person receiving the message as though it came from
> you. (Again, there's a postal analogy: Someone could send a letter
> purporting to be from you and with your return address on it. Until the
> recipent contacts you, they have no way of knowing the letter is not from
> you.)
> 
> Is there nothing ARRL can do to stop the SPAM?
> 
> There is nothing that will be 100% effective at stopping SPAM while allowing
> all legitimate messages to come through. We continue to investigate possible
> approaches to improving the situation.
> 
> Can I do anything?
> 
> Here are a few Web sites you can check that list means of fighting SPAM:
> 
> http://www.cauce.org/about/resources.shtml
> 
> http://spam.abuse.net/userhelp/
> 
> http://spamcop.net/
> 
> http://www.mailwasher.net/
> 
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