.pl and .ru email addies
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Hi all:
I was just taking a look at p2pnet subscribers and a disproportionate number have .pl and .ru email addresses.
Some are genuine, but a lot of them are very obvious fakes, perhaps because the people who entered them hoped this would allow them to post spam comments automatically, or by hand, as an increasing number seem to want to do.
I ask because I’ll delete them if they’re in some way beneficial to parties unknown. But if they’re not, I won’t bother.
Can anyone advise me on this?
Cheers! And thanks …
Jon
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
November, 2009
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November 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Mass cleaning?
Email them all that their Email will be deleted from the list unless replied to. If they have no clue what p2pnet is and don’t reply, or think your a spammer, then they never came here to begin with (or someone entered junk). Delete then 30-days later after notice (assume some leave for vacation and/or have a life)
November 4th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
eh also, .pl and .ru are also used alot for shells. So they aren’t necessarily fakes. People use this (I used to) as a mask (ip, proxy and Email)
November 4th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
You can catch a lot of them at the time of registration and redirect. I noticed patterns, often in the URLs they gave but also occupation etc which I then checked for. Most normal users don’t provide an occupation or URL. I was also finding the string ’sex’, or similar, in most bogus registration URLs. Each time I got a bogus reg I would look at what was unique about it and add a rule to detect it. After a few weeks I was redirecting 90% of the rubbish registrations automatically. I was redirecting them the forum registration page of a fundamentalist religious site on the basis that they would figure they miss filled the form and resubmit there. The idea was they didn’t realise they had left my site and were now somewhere they would get some unwanted attention. A low budget version of 419 baiting
The fun part is choosing where to have have them automatically redirected, CIA, kiddie porn site or somewhere else no sane person would register. In your case may you could redirect to the RIAA?
November 4th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Just don’t redirect them somewhere, uKoda, that someone might have the presence of mind to check the referrer URL
November 4th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Well, it might be more work, but if you created a single-use email address and had people who did have legitimate .pl or .ru accounts to send you their emails privately so that you’d know not to erase them, that wipe any ones you don’t recieve, that might be the most win-win scenario.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Thanks a lot, folks. I appreciate the input. Very helpful.
Cheers!
November 9th, 2009 at 4:36 am
wait a momment, I’m true subscriber… it just happened that changed my email address…
and one more thing – if ANYONE thinking about using .pl as a shell is idiot – in fact i can anytime lose internet… if u want know – our goverment started censorship program… and I dont like it…