Re: [twuug] chaffing spambots (was Privacy bounce)

[Ethan <telmnstr@xxxxxxx>]

If anyone wants to try to write BSD or Linux voice mail software I have a
few spare Rhetorex 4 port and Dialogic voice mail cards avilible for loan.
A TWUUG INFOLINE!

My roomate wrote DOS software that did okay.  He never finished it tho.
Thanks to y2k scare I picked up a Lucent system from a company that got
mad when Lucent tried to charge an outrageous amount for y2k compatible
upgrade... So they bought a Nortel Norstar.

Sorry about spelling errors tonite. Company has me stuck in a GHETTO hotel
in Austin Tx. The phone is a mile away from the table, the carpet is
turning pink in areas when it should be smurfy blue, and the modems like
nobodys business... <pause> <modem retrains>




On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, BELINSKYG wrote:

>      John,
>      
>      Private Branch eXchange.  It is a computer controlled phone 
>      switchboard, voice mail system, et al that is usually used as a 
>      private (internal) telephone switching system by a company to route 
>      calls from a external phone system and vice versa.  It provides 
>      enhanced features such as multiple lines and numbers, tranferring 
>      calls, shortened internal dialing, and call forwarding.  Sometimes you 
>      are required to dial a single diget prefix (e.g. 9) to get an external 
>      line.  An example of a popular (if not hackable :) version would be 
>      AUTEX.
> 
>      Robert   
> 
>                 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: [twuug] chaffing spambots (was Privacy bounce) 
> Author:  <twuug@memach.com> at INTERNET
> Date:    6/21/00 08:32
> 
> 
>      
>   Hmm, if spammers don't check their bounces then that's good news too. 
> I've seen some cool perl scripts that generate 1000's of bogus email 
> addresses for trespassing webcrawlers.  
>   Since the majority of UCE lists are built from Usenet or the Web, a
> bulkmailer can easily find most of his database filled with phony 
> targets.  This eats into profits. :-)  
>      
>   If you like that and run a web server, here's some source:
> http://perl.about.com/compute/perl/library/weekly/aa071899.htm
>      
>      
> >>
> I dunno why, but the minute you joke their PBX by brand and model they 
> shut up.
> <<
>   <embarrassment> Um, what's a PBX?
>      
>   Later,
>   John
>      
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