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Spam?

August 30, 2005

Have any of you who run public websites come across the following kind of message?

Received: (qmail 70300 invoked by uid 89); 30 Aug 2005 15:13:30 -0000
Delivered-To: nuxx.net-admin@nuxx.net
Received: (qmail 70298 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2005 15:13:30 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mail.seventwentyfour.com) (209.167.50.21)
by bornslippy.nuxx.net with SMTP; 30 Aug 2005 15:13:30 -0000
Received: from seven ([192.168.1.137])
by mail.seventwentyfour.com (VisNetic.MailServer.v6.2.2.0) with SMTP id KNR37895
for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:10:12 -0400
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:10:12 -0400
X-Mailer: 724Mailer V4
From: Roy at SEVENtwentyfour
To: admin@nuxx.net
Reply-To: Roy at SEVENtwentyfour
Subject: Broken link in www.nuxx.net
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-724-ID: WVOWTJ
X-724-SID: 1458143038
X-724-UID: 0x0
X-724-To: admin@nuxx.net
X-724-Template: 5
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on rez.nuxx.net
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=INVALID_DATE,RCVD_IN_SBL
autolearn=no version=3.0.4

There appears to be a problem on this page of your site.

On page http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/alaska_2003
when you click on “Back to the Gallery”,
the link to http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/alaska_2003main.php
gives the error: Not found.

As recommended by the Robot Guidelines, this email is to explain
our robot’s visit to your site, and to let you know about one of
the problems we found. We don’t store or publish the content of
your pages, but rather use the link information to update our map
of the World Wide Web.

Are these reports helpful? I’d love some feedback. If you prefer
not to receive these occasional error notices please let me know.

Roy Bryant

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Roy Bryant, roybryant@seventwentyfour.com
President
SEVENtwentyfour Inc.
http://www.seventwentyfour.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I think that this is spam, but I’m not sure. It appears that the SEVEN twentyfour site just trolls for 404s and then sends automated email based on the response. If someone remotely intelligent had been doing this checking they would have noted the redirection to the new version of gallery and how the URL in question really doesn’t exist.

What’s interesting is that the ‘person’ emailed the admin@ address linked to in the top of the main page, not the one in the WHOIS records, making me think that it’s a bit less automated.

Posted in computersmoved from livejournalnuxx.net

10 Responses

  1. bradd August 30, 2005

    Oh I’ve gotten stuff like this all the time – definitely think its spam.

  2. anditron August 30, 2005

    get it all the time too.

    1. c0nsumer August 30, 2005

      From the same company?

      1. anditron August 30, 2005

        not sure, but the wording is almost identical. if i ever bothered to save it i’d forward it to you. i’ll check when i get home, i might not have emptied my trash folder yet

        1. c0nsumer August 30, 2005

          Oh, interesting. Don’t worry about it, though…

          What’s interesting is that he found a supposed 404 which doens’t exist. Unless he’s working off of a cached copy.

  3. doktor242 August 30, 2005

    I’ve gotten that as well. Spammity spam.

  4. glove_puppet August 30, 2005

    I’ve had those from both my work website and one I did for a friend. All from Roy, bless him. He must be a busy man….

  5. mr_kitehead August 30, 2005

    am I taking crazy pills?

    The error is apparent to me: on the Alaska Journal,
    http://www.nuxx.net/alaskajournal/
    there’s a Series of Pictures link: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/alaska_2003
    This link fails, and the “back to gallery” link shows a 404 as described, for http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/alaska_2003main.php

    1. bernmarx August 31, 2005

      Re: am I taking crazy pills?

      If you’re taking crazy pills, we must know each other, because you apparently gave some to me. :D

  6. bernmarx August 31, 2005

    It depends on how you define “spam.” :D

    I’ve seen these and they never really seen them ask for anything (as this one doesn’t). I’m much more annoyed by the ones that say things like, “Your website listing on our service is about to expire! Please renew for the small fee of $95/day.” (for a service that I’ve never heard of in my life).

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