Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #261 - 7 msgs - Air-L

8 Jan 2002

      I have received an e-amil both in Spanish and English, very short text 
refering to a girl with a camera into her house and inviting to voyeur with 
her. And yes, it has been during recent months via Yahoo.

On the other hand, via hotmail, there is a service of something like forged 
diplomas and titles that has repeatitivelly come to me. Today I blocked it 
but, this is nuts to be so openly ofering criminal services!

cbz

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To: air-l@aoir.org
Subject: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #261 - 7 msgs
Date: Sun,  6 Jan 2002 12:01:01 -0500 (EST)

Today's Topics:

    1. Re: increase in SPAM (Valdis)
    2. Porn spam ... (Ken Friedman)
    3. e-government & e-advocacy (John McNutt)
    4. Re: increase in spam (Alan Rea)
    5. Re: Porn spam ... (jeremy hunsinger)
    6. increase in spam (Derek McMillan)
    7. ITUA 2002; 2nd CFP (Soraj Hongladarom)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:18:02 -0500
From: Valdis <valdis@orgnet.com>
To: air-l@aoir.org, gurakl@umn.edu
Subject: [Air-l] Re: increase in SPAM
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

yes, I have noticed an increase in the last several months and just this
morning [Saturday] 80% of the emails that arrived overnight were spam!  IMHO
the best thing to do is immediately forward the emails to: abuse@[lookup
abuser's ISP from originating IP address using a WhoIs ].  As the first line 
on
the Forwarded email I add:  ***   SPAM from your customer: 12.86.200.18   
***
[the last one I received this AM]

I'm sure many of us on this list receive the same SPAM.  If everyone starts
doing this maybe the guilty ISPs will start to police their own better.

I have noticed a drop in the Yahoo mail from Nigeria attempting fraudulent
money transfers... they have gone over to other ISPs but overall the volume 
has
dropped tremendously.

Valdis Krebs
http://www.orgnet.com
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:02:53 -0600
From: Laura Gurak <gurakl@umn.edu>
To: AIR List <air-l@aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] increase in spam...
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in the amount of porn-type spam
they are getting? At least six people, including one journalist, have
been
...
asking me what's up. I've heard from both academics and folks in the 
private
sector, and all seem to indicate a sudden (past 5-7 days) rise in this
stuff. I personally have noticed it as well. Anyone know what's going on?
----------------
Laura J. Gurak, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Rhetoric Department, University of Minnesota
1994 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108  v 612-624-3773
also--Director, Internet Studies Center -- www.isc.umn.edu
Faculty Fellow, Law School
gurakL@tc.umn.edu   http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu/faculty/LGurak/
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:20:35 +0100
To: air-l@aoir.org
From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman@bi.no>
Subject: [Air-l] Porn spam ...
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

Laura Gurak asks, "Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in the
amount of porn-type spam they are getting?"

Yes, I have.

I observe that much of this material seems to come via third-world
nations, especially Russia. This means that European privacy laws --
and North American laws, when they are created -- will not be of much
use in stopping the problem.

A vast amount of the spam I am getting these days is HTML mail that
has embedded links that do not work with my email program. I couldn't
respond if I wanted to do so.

--

Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Technology and Knowledge Management
Norwegian School of Management

Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University

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Message: 3
From: John McNutt <mcnutt@mail1.bc.edu>
To: "'air-l@aoir.org'" <air-l@aoir.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 11:40:19 -0500
Organization: Boston College
Subject: [Air-l] e-government & e-advocacy
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

I'm in the process of designing a study of the relationship between
e-government level in a state and the technology used by advocacy groups. I
want to find out if the general level of e-government sophistication
affects the kinds of technology that advocacy groups use.  I'm looking for
appropriate literature and ideas.  Any feedback will be appreciated.

John

John G.  McNutt
Graduate School of Social Work
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
617.552.4036-Voice
617.552.1080-Fax
www:   http://www.geocities.com/john_g_mcnutt/

Be Ashamed to Die Until You Have Won Some Victory for Humanity-- Horace Mann

Computing is not about computers anymore. Its about living --Nicholas 
Negroponte

Abyssus abyssum invocat--C.S. Lewis

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:13:46 -0500
To: air-l@aoir.org
From: Alan Rea <rea@wmich.edu>
Subject: [Air-l] Re: increase in spam
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

On possible cause in an exploit in a very popular form processing
CGI-Script called FormMail. Any Web server using a version older then 1.9
is open for SPAMmers to use the server via the processing script. It's been
going on for a couple of months, but more servers are now getting hit since
the word has spread. The easiest fix is either to remove the program or
simply update it:

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml

Later...

Alan

At 12:01 PM 1/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:02:53 -0600
From: Laura Gurak <gurakl@umn.edu>
To: AIR List <air-l@aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] increase in spam...
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in the amount of porn-type spam
they are getting? At least six people, including one journalist, have been
asking me what's up. I've heard from both academics and folks in the 
private
sector, and all seem to indicate a sudden (past 5-7 days) rise in this
stuff. I personally have noticed it as well. Anyone know what's going on?
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Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"

<html>
On possible cause in an exploit in a very popular form
processing CGI-Script called FormMail. Any Web server using a version
older then 1.9 is open for SPAMmers to use the server via the processing
script. It's been going on for a couple of months, but more servers are
now getting hit since the word has spread. The easiest fix is either to
remove the program or simply update it: 
<a href="http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml" 
eudora="autourl">http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml</a> 
Later... 
Alan 
 
At 12:01 PM 1/5/2002 -0500, you wrote: 
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Message: 2 
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 22:02:53 -0600 
From: Laura Gurak <gurakl@umn.edu> 
To: AIR List <air-l@aoir.org> 
Subject: [Air-l] increase in spam... 
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org 
Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in the amount of porn-type
spam 
they are getting? At least six people, including one journalist, have
been 
asking me what's up. I've heard from both academics and folks in the
private 
sector, and all seem to indicate a sudden (past 5-7 days) rise in
this 
stuff. I personally have noticed it as well. Anyone know what's going
on? 
</blockquote></html>

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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:44:21 -0500
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Porn spam ...
From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>
To: air-l@aoir.org
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

I haven't noticed much in terms of porn based spam, I used to get some a
few months ago, but I started routing them to autorepliers and they
stopped.  What I have been getting is more "nigerian scam" types and
strange advertisements from south america and china, for instance i just
received an offer for bottled water in argentina, very strange. There
was an article on this a few weeks back on wired news about the increase
in spam.  I believe it tied it to the increase in search engines
worldwide and the ease of harvesting e-mails, etc.  along those lines,
I'm seeing many more search engines hitting the servers here.

one thing that seems to affect increases in spam is belonging to e-mail
lists that archive but don't remove your e-mail.  Air-l and all similar
that i run replace the e-mail, though not in forwarded messages:( not
much i can do about that without rewriting the archivers.

however, an interesting test for such harvesting is to do a google
search on your e-mail id, for instance jhuns generates 404 google
records.  I ran some other frequent posters and generalize that most
people that post to lists generate numbers over 100.

jeremy hunsinger
jhuns@vt.edu
on the ibook
www.cddc.vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
www.dromocracy.com

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Message: 6
From: "Derek McMillan" <derekmcmillan@hotmail.com>
To: air-l@aoir.org
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 05:21:52
Subject: [Air-l] increase in spam
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

What I have also noticed is that the spelling and grammar of the spam has
deteriorated.  This suggests to me that the ways and means of sending out
spam have become very widely available to individuals and not just to
commercial ventures.  Spam messages offering the ability to "send out
millions of free advertisements daily" have been arriving for some time.
In fact the amount of spam which I personally receive has been drastically
cut because I use an effective filter on hotmail only taking messages from
people in my address book.
...
From: Laura Gurak <gurakl@umn.edu>
To: AIR List <air-l@aoir.org>
Subject: [Air-l] increase in spam...
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in the amount of porn-type spam
they are getting? At least six people, including one journalist, have been
asking me what's up. I've heard from both academics and folks in the
private
sector, and all seem to indicate a sudden (past 5-7 days) rise in this
stuff. I personally have noticed it as well. Anyone know what's going on?
----------------
Laura J. Gurak, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Rhetoric Department, University of Minnesota
1994 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108  v 612-624-3773
also--Director, Internet Studies Center -- www.isc.umn.edu
Faculty Fellow, Law School
gurakL@tc.umn.edu   http://www.rhetoric.umn.edu/faculty/LGurak/

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:40:02 +0700
To: air-l@aoir.org
From: Soraj Hongladarom <hsoraj@chula.ac.th>
Subject: [Air-l] ITUA 2002; 2nd CFP
Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

Please note that the deadline of submission to ITUA 2002 is now Feb. 15, 
2002.

Yours,
Soraj

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on "Information Technology and Universities
in Asia" (ITUA 2002)

April 3-5, 2002
Building One, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

The Faculty Senate, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, in
cooperation with the Asia CALL Association, is organizing an
international conference on "Information Technology and Universities
in Asia" from April 3 to 5, 2002, at the campus of the university.
The conference will be a place where teachers, researchers,
administrators and others who are interested in how best to use
information and communication technologies (ICTs) in realizing the
missions of the university get together to share ideas, opinions and
research findings. Of special interest are papers and presentations
that explore the cultural aspects of using ICTs in universities,
especially Asian cultures. However, though the focus of the
conference is on the use of ICTs in Asian universities, participants
from all corners of the world are very welcome to share their ideas
and expertise.

Paper proposals are called in three broad areas (these are meant only
to be suggestive, and are not exclusive):

1. Distance Learning
2. ICTs in Classroom Teaching and/or Research
3. ICTs in University Administration

Please send your abstracts (preferably by e-mail, max. 500 words) to:

Soraj Hongladarom
Faculty Senate
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok 10330
Email: hsoraj@chula.ac.th
Tel: +66-2-218-7024; Fax: +66-2-218-7036

Deadline of submission: February 15, 2002

Plans are being made with Chulalongkorn University Press to publish
selected papers in a bound volume. Please include your abstracts in
the body of the email and please do not send it as an attached file.

Further information about the conference, including details about
registration, can be found at:

http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/IT

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