prodev opened this issue on Jul 08, 2007 · 411 posts
Hawkfyr posted Thu, 19 July 2007 at 12:23 PM
Attached Link: Diagram
Hi Natoli,
***"***Still it is a concern, none-the-less... One that Renderosity needs to address, even if it is to track down which Backbone provider is compromised.."
Why should Renderosity go any further than their own servers to resolve a problem that they can not fix?
Let me ask you something...when you send or receive e-mail (any e-mail), are you asked which path that email takes to reach it's final destination?
I'm not asked that...why should one expect that Rositys' automated reply system is presented with such a question?
Once an email is sent (unless it via a VPN or LAN),.... it's out there in the Wild Wild West of Cyber-Space...There is no way Rosity has control over that e-mail/bot, once it has left their server(s).
It Matters Naught (He is your King) what e-mail or webmail program you use.
Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo, GMail...has nothing to do with it.
Simply put..
1) An E-Mail left Renderosity to you.
2) Contained in that e-mail header,...was your e-mail address.(otherwise...how would it get to you?)
3) Once it left Rosity's E-mails servers,...it is out of thier control which path that e- mail/bot takes to get to you.
4) Along that path...is a router.
5) Someone with access to that router, is harvesting e-mail addresses from the e-mail headers.
6) That someone collects all of these (Good) E-mail addresses.
7) That someone compiles a CD of (Good) E-mail addresses.
8) That someone sells that CD to the Spammer.
9) Your E-mail address is on that CD
It's really pretty simple...it's not rocket science.
Hi Acadia,
"Then why is it that email addresses entered at sites such as Daz and Poser Pros aren't getting spam?"
sigh
Because DAZ's E-mails are taking another path to you...that does not pass through the router(s) that Rosity's does.
Please read the post linked.
Click on the picture for a simplified diagram.
The fact that you started getting Spam on your (then) "@renderosity.com" account...only supports this scenario.
Tom
“The fact that no one understands you…Doesn’t make you an artist.”