My subscription to NANOG aged 3 months ago and I am receiving this spam too. And this is my first post. I effectively think that someone might have crack the email database of the Nanog list.
Reynold On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:41 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > 4 weeks ago I started getting weekly spam from c...@crossfiremedia.com. I > have been "subscribed" to this newsletter. Today's spam subject line is > "Get to 4GWE and Participate in the Wireless Future, We'll help pay your > way..." > > The address used is an address I used on NANOG some years back - I haven't > used it in quite a while but still get an occasional private email from > someone who has that address in their address book so the address is still > active. > > Because there's a remote chance that some time long ago I "subscribed" to > some message board and hidden in the message board settings is a pre-checked > option (which I overlooked) to receive email from "partners", I privately > emailed several friends in the IT/Security fields asking if they were > getting this spam. The one friend who is also getting this spam is also > someone who occasionally posts to NANOG, and who also has no idea why he was > "subscribed" to this spam. Because of this coincidence, I think the spammer > may have scarfed email addresses of people who posted to NANOG and added > them to the "targeted" mailing list / spam list. > > I'm curious to know if other NANOG subscribers have started receiving spam > from this person. > > I also found 2 sites that have web interfaces to their NANOG archives where > they are not obscuring email addresses and who leaked posting addresses onto > the web: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=lists05%40equinephotoart.com+nanog > > Is there someone at NANOG who can ask these sites to remove these archives, > or at least purge/munge email addresses? > > Please reply via private email. Thanks! > > jc > >