March 2003 - arrl-odv - reflector.arrl.org

[ARRL-ODV:8551] July meeting schedule
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

The Executive Committee has asked me to remind everyone that the meeting schedule for this coming July is slightly different than usual. In accordance with the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Planning Committee that were accepted by the Board at Minute 40 of the January meeting, on Thursday, July 17, the Officers, Directors, and staff officers will be involved in a full-day Leadership Development Seminar with Bud Crouch of Innovations Plus. The Board meeting activities will begin that evening with the group dinner and informal session, with the Board Meeting to be called to order on Friday morning and continuing on Saturday as usual. Thus, the travel days for Officers and Directors are Wednesday, July 16 (arrival) and Sunday, July 20 (departure). The travel days for Vice Directors are Thursday, July 17 (arrival) and Sunday, July 20 (departure). It will not be possible for the standing committees and other committees to meet in July immediately prior to the Leadership Development Seminar and Board Meeting, i.e. on Wednesday. There are two reasons. First, past experience has shown that it is unwise to try and do too much at one meeting; this is one of the reasons why our most recent effort at strategic planning failed. Second, because the Vice Directors will not arrive until Thursday it would not be possible for Vice Director members to participate in a Wednesday committee meeting. As a further reminder, the Officers, Directors, and staff officers will be holding a two-day Strategic Planning Session in St. Louis on September 13-14. This is not a Board Meeting per se, and no regular business will be transacted. 73, David Sumner, K1ZZ Secretary

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[ARRL-ODV:8550] Re: Latest Complaint About SPAM on ARRL.Net
by Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Andy Oppel provided some excellent observations on the issue. Since we're not an ISP arrl.net is not the right place to apply filtering. If a member wants filtering he or she should take it up with their ISP or use one of the various products being offered to filter at the end user's computer. If you think we get complaints now, imagine what we'd get if 25% of legitimate email addressed to arrl.net addresses didn't get delivered. Dave K1ZZ -----Original Message----- From: Isely, Dick (Dir, Central) Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:16 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:8548] Latest Complaint About SPAM on ARRL.Net 17 MAR, 2003 - I'm sure the rest of you have received similar messages regarding SPAM and our ARRL.NET operation. For the record, here is the latest one I have received. I have answered this person by pointing out to him that this is an issue within the board, but that there are considerable costs involved in filtering email and that if this was done, there would probably still be some leakage of unwanted email messages. 73 - Dick, W9GIG ======================================================================== Delivered-To: dick(a)pobox.com : :: : :: : X-Sender: cfwsj(a)ux1.cts.eiu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:42:21 -0600 To: dick(a)pobox.com From: William James <cfwsj(a)ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Subject: ARRL E-MAIL : : : Dick, Hope all has been going well with you. Appreciate your congratulatory note to George Shands W9WUU on the occasion of his fifty years of operating. Have more years to go here to reach that level but identified with the fun he has had over the years. When the option of having a "callsign(a)arrl.net" became available, I thought it was a great idea that I appreciated very much and quickly jumped aboard. Initially, there was no problem. Gradually, I began to get more and more "uninvited e-mail" as some discovered that that kind of an address could increase their advertising reach. Within the last few months it has gotten to the point were more than half of my e-mail messages are unwanted/univited and that portion is still going up. When I opened my e-mail just a few minutes ago, I had sixteen messages. Fifteen of those were unwanted advertisements for all kinds of items/services, some of which I suspect are illegal. The usual address on such e-mails is w9lyn(a)arrl.net although some use what looks to me like a way of hitting everyone on the "@arrl.net" server. I have about reached the point where I think it is time to remove my call from the ARRL list unless you can give me some hope that the ARRL server will be able to block such mail. As you can see, at this end I still get my e-mail through the university from which I am retired. My local Internet supplier is a local outfit that connects me to Eastern's e-mail system. Thanks for all of your work as our Division Director and in advance for your consideration of this matter. 73, Bill - W9LYN ARRL-Life Member

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[ARRL-ODV:8549] Re: Latest Complaint About SPAM on ARRL.Net
by Shelley, Barry, N1VXY 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Dick: The only other thing I would have pointed out to this member is that his arrl.net e-mail address is posted on about 9 different public web pages, including in his record on the QRZ.com on-line callsign database, for anyone, spammers included, to find and send their junk. Its a little like publishing your mailing address in some public place and then complaining to the mailman that he's not sorting through the validly addressed mail deciding which ones he thinks you don't want to receive. FYI, there is an article on spam slated for the upcoming issue of QST, I believe. 73, Barry, N1VXY -----Original Message----- From: Isely, Dick (Dir, Central) Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:16 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:8548] Latest Complaint About SPAM on ARRL.Net 17 MAR, 2003 - I'm sure the rest of you have received similar messages regarding SPAM and our ARRL.NET operation. For the record, here is the latest one I have received. I have answered this person by pointing out to him that this is an issue within the board, but that there are considerable costs involved in filtering email and that if this was done, there would probably still be some leakage of unwanted email messages. 73 - Dick, W9GIG ======================================================================== Delivered-To: dick(a)pobox.com : :: : :: : X-Sender: cfwsj(a)ux1.cts.eiu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:42:21 -0600 To: dick(a)pobox.com From: William James <cfwsj(a)ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Subject: ARRL E-MAIL : : : Dick, Hope all has been going well with you. Appreciate your congratulatory note to George Shands W9WUU on the occasion of his fifty years of operating. Have more years to go here to reach that level but identified with the fun he has had over the years. When the option of having a "callsign(a)arrl.net" became available, I thought it was a great idea that I appreciated very much and quickly jumped aboard. Initially, there was no problem. Gradually, I began to get more and more "uninvited e-mail" as some discovered that that kind of an address could increase their advertising reach. Within the last few months it has gotten to the point were more than half of my e-mail messages are unwanted/univited and that portion is still going up. When I opened my e-mail just a few minutes ago, I had sixteen messages. Fifteen of those were unwanted advertisements for all kinds of items/services, some of which I suspect are illegal. The usual address on such e-mails is w9lyn(a)arrl.net although some use what looks to me like a way of hitting everyone on the "@arrl.net" server. I have about reached the point where I think it is time to remove my call from the ARRL list unless you can give me some hope that the ARRL server will be able to block such mail. As you can see, at this end I still get my e-mail through the university from which I am retired. My local Internet supplier is a local outfit that connects me to Eastern's e-mail system. Thanks for all of your work as our Division Director and in advance for your consideration of this matter. 73, Bill - W9LYN ARRL-Life Member

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[ARRL-ODV:8548] Latest Complaint About SPAM on ARRL.Net
by dick＠pobox.com 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

17 MAR, 2003 - I'm sure the rest of you have received similar messages regarding SPAM and our ARRL.NET operation. For the record, here is the latest one I have received. I have answered this person by pointing out to him that this is an issue within the board, but that there are considerable costs involved in filtering email and that if this was done, there would probably still be some leakage of unwanted email messages. 73 - Dick, W9GIG ======================================================================== Delivered-To: dick(a)pobox.com : :: : :: : X-Sender: cfwsj(a)ux1.cts.eiu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:42:21 -0600 To: dick(a)pobox.com From: William James <cfwsj(a)ux1.cts.eiu.edu> Subject: ARRL E-MAIL : : : Dick, Hope all has been going well with you. Appreciate your congratulatory note to George Shands W9WUU on the occasion of his fifty years of operating. Have more years to go here to reach that level but identified with the fun he has had over the years. When the option of having a "callsign(a)arrl.net" became available, I thought it was a great idea that I appreciated very much and quickly jumped aboard. Initially, there was no problem. Gradually, I began to get more and more "uninvited e-mail" as some discovered that that kind of an address could increase their advertising reach. Within the last few months it has gotten to the point were more than half of my e-mail messages are unwanted/univited and that portion is still going up. When I opened my e-mail just a few minutes ago, I had sixteen messages. Fifteen of those were unwanted advertisements for all kinds of items/services, some of which I suspect are illegal. The usual address on such e-mails is w9lyn(a)arrl.net although some use what looks to me like a way of hitting everyone on the "@arrl.net" server. I have about reached the point where I think it is time to remove my call from the ARRL list unless you can give me some hope that the ARRL server will be able to block such mail. As you can see, at this end I still get my e-mail through the university from which I am retired. My local Internet supplier is a local outfit that connects me to Eastern's e-mail system. Thanks for all of your work as our Division Director and in advance for your consideration of this matter. 73, Bill - W9LYN ARRL-Life Member

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[ARRL-ODV:8547] Re: [Fwd: MY FARM]
by dick＠pobox.com 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

16 MAR, 2003 - 2025 CST Hello Rev... My copy of the message was addressed as coming from me. Really stupid way of sending out SPAM SCAM, but there are people even dumber who will respond and that's why it continues to show up. 73 - Dick, W9GIG

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[ARRL-ODV:8546] Re: [Fwd: MY FARM]
by Mortonwg＠aol.com 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

Hey Folks: I just got back from a ten day vacation in Arizona and it looks like the "My Farm" e-mail originally came from me. It did not, and it upsets me that this can happen. I hope this will not happen again. Rev WS7W

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[ARRL-ODV:8545] Re: [Fwd: MY FARM]
by Huntington Howard-CADV02 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Well, I have two farms. Combined it is much smaller than Bruce's however. Maybe the Vice Directors have the lock on the farm connection. I really do not like spam. It is getting worse and some of the recent garbage is truly offensive. It all comes through arrl.org. I would gladly pay $15 per year to stop it. Howie, K9KM -----Original Message----- From: K4NK(a)aol.com [mailto:K4NK@aol.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 8:29 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:8540] Re: [Fwd: MY FARM] I got one too! How do we stop this stuff ? Les K4NK

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[ARRL-ODV:8544] Re: [Fwd: MY FARM]
by Andy Oppel 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

At 09:29 AM 3/14/2003 -0500, you wrote: I got one too! How do we stop this stuff ? Les K4NK -------------------------------------- Stopping spam (unwanted e-mail solicitation) is not an easy prospect. If it were, the IT (Information Technology) Industry would have it figured out by now. One problem is that spammers "Spoof" (forge) the e-mail address and IP address from which they send the mail, and they change their settings with nearly every item they send, so patterns are difficult to recognize. So that leaves IT staff trying to find patterns in the body of the message itself to identify what is spam and what is not. These methods are only about 80% effective in identifying spam and unfortunately falsely identify legitimate messages as spam (deleting them when they should be sent) up to 25% of the time. It's just not an easy thing to figure out. And how did they get our e-mail addresses? Probably from the ARRL Web Site. They have automated processes (called worms and bots in the trade) that continuously surf the Internet harvesting e-mail addresses from web pages. Just for fun I put a phoney e-mail address on my web site. I started receiving spam directed at to that e-mail address within about 8 hours. Then there is the issue of the "Remove Me" that they are supposed to put on every e-mail by law in a number of states (including California). The law doesn't require the link to work, apparently, and most of them don't. And of the ones that do, my guess is that half of them disable to address for their spam engine and turn around and sell the address to someone else (you get twice as much for a "confirmed" e-mail address, and by entering it on the "Remove Me" page, you are confirming it for them). 73, Andy Oppel, N6AJO Vice Director, Pacific Division, ARRL n6ajo(a)arrl.org home: (510) 864-2299 cell: (510) 508-6379

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[ARRL-ODV:8542] Re: more foolishness [Fwd: MY FARM]
by Bruce Frahm K0BJ 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

But I DO have a farm. Just send me the $17 Million, then the gov't. won't have to send this month's subsidy check...... 73 (eat heartily) K0BJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mendelsohn, Stephen A." <Stephen.A.Mendelsohn(a)abc.com> > >> Just got this when I opened my e-mail. I knew it wasn't from me right > from the get go. Don't have a farm. ........ > Hi Tuck. .......Please return the 17 Million dollars I sent so I can resend it to a more > worthy cause > in some other war-torn African country. > > -73- Steve, W2ML >

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[ARRL-ODV:8543] Re: [Fwd: MY FARM]
by Joel Harrison 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

We're hosed here in the U.S. As soon as our farmers find out they can sell fifty farming sites and 100 tractors for $22 Million, there won't be a farmer left in this country. Joel -----Original Message----- From: Tuck Miller NZ6T [mailto:nz6t@arrl.org] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 7:30 AM To: arrl-odv Subject: [ARRL-ODV:8537] [Fwd: MY FARM] Wow, isn't this great. Now they are sending out messages with other folks e-mail addresses on them. Just got this when I opened my e-mail. I knew it wasn't from me right from the get go. Don't have a farm. Have a great weekend folks, 73, Tuck -------- Original Message -------- Subject: MY FARM Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:40:19 -0800 From: "nz6t" <nz6t(a)arrl.org> Reply-To: ben_farmer(a)rediffmail.com To: nz6t(a)arrl.org FROM: BEN BROWN 44 OXFORD STREET ILLOVO, SANDTON,JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA E-MAIL:ben_farmer@rediffmail.com I am Mr Ben Brown, a farm owner in Zimbabwe. I have fifty farming site in Zimbabwe, twenty tractors with one hundred and twenty workers. Then the Zimbabwe ruling government of President Robert Mugabe ordered for the siezure of all the farming lands of the white own farmers, he also siezed all my lands because I am an opposition party to his government, his government is violating the human right in the southern region of Africa. So some of the farm owners where killed and their properties looted by the war veterans, so I being a black Zimbabwean I managed to move my tractors and sold them to the south African farmers. I sold all my properties and raised the sum of US $22,300,000.00. Then I deposited this money in the Security Company at Johannesburg South Africa in the safe box. I m residing temporary now in Johannesburg as a political assylum seeker because of the fear of Mugabe who are seeking to kill me. Because of the south African refugee law, I cannot deposit this money in the bank or invest the money here in south Africa, that's why I m seeking an oversea assistance who will help me transfer this money to his or her account to his country, both company or individual. I get your address through a diplomatic search for a reliable person. I will be very greatful if you will help me to transfer this money on your account or find a trust worthy person to transfer this money. I have planned a smooth free transaction here on my side because I get this money through my effort and my hard work, so I have noting to fear. The break down of this transaction were as follows (1) 70% of this money will be for me for an investment in your country. (2) 25% of this money will be for you for your assisting me to transfer it on your account to your country. (3) 5% of this money will be for any expensis made by you or anyother person during the transfering period. In regard of this request, if you are willing to help me, Kindly reply me immediately and include your private tel/fax numbers. Thanks and God bless Ben Brown. -- ************************************************ ARRL The national association for Amateur Radio Remember, Helping Others....Always Worthwhile!! Southwestern Division Vice Director Are you a member yet? If not, please join! Personal Web Page: http://www.qsl.net/nz6t

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