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09/28/07

The joys of email archiving

04:13:52 pm, Categories: ID10T Errors, Humor  

Every once in a while you notice a substantial increase in the volume of spam to a users address. The new spam all seems to come from dating sites, very interesting. Now, when looking for false positives, you happen to come across a reply from a spam bot to a sex ad posted by a user -- from their work account complete with company address in the signature! You get curious. You look into this more. And then you discover that the user's replies to sex ads outnumber legit business email by a factor of 5 to 1. User gets a talking to, illegitimate email traffic stops. Eventually the user leaves the organization, and you get to do the final email archive. And this is where the fun begins...

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Permalink 638 words by Felix The Kraut, 291 views • 2 comments

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