On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 12:42, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> (Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:25:39 +0100)
> And Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > PS:
> > Mostly I receive spam with these headers:
> >
> > Undelivered Mail Returned To Mailer (from "Admin"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) always contains EXE
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:25:39 +0100
Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Collins wrote:
> >
> > As I said earlier, no spam comes to me that I can identify as coming
> > from my association with gentoo.
>
>
> This is simple unbelievable for me, since I also
> recorded massive spam to my
(Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:25:39 +0100)
And Norbert Kamenicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> PS:
> Mostly I receive spam with these headers:
>
> Undelivered Mail Returned To Mailer (from "Admin"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) always contains EXE files
>
> Last Internet Upgrade (from "Microsoft Corporation Secu
Collins wrote:
As I said earlier, no spam comes to me that I can identify as coming
from my association with gentoo.
This is simple unbelievable for me, since I also
recorded massive spam to my e-mail account few days
after subscribing and sending my first reply.
After collecting these facts:
1.
I say we blame it on MS anyhoo. They've gotten away with alot we
haven't called them on. ;-)
Does anyone know if any other lists have been targetted like this one?
I've only seen mail come in on this address.
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Jeremy
Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 02:13:06 +
Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 05 Jan 2004 02:03, Collins wrote:
> > I've been subscribed for years, and other than the once or twice a
> > year thing, I've seen no spam.
>
> Hey Collins, you must be either very lucky or clever. What are you
Sunday, January 4, 2004, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen writes:
> I would still guess that it is a web spider that got your address.
> Many of the archives are immediate, and so it is possible a web
> spider just happened to check the list archive web page several ho
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 02:03, Collins wrote:
> I've been subscribed for years, and other than the once or twice a
> year thing, I've seen no spam.
Hey Collins, you must be either very lucky or clever. What are you
using to avoid gentoo-spam?
Peter
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:29:01 +0100
Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I made my first post ever with this mail address to this list
> yesterday, and already today I receive spam on it. Not such a big
> deal, since this address is only used for receiving list mail, so
> anyt
Sascha Cunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [snip]
> Maybe, it's this way. However - best practice is still to use a single mail
> account only for subscribing and posting to mailinglists. Then ingnore
> anything that struggles into this mail account, if it wasn't sent by a
> specific mail host
Jason Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [snip]
> I also noticed some email coming to my gentoo ml alias since X-mas. :(
> If you can, set up an alias for each list you are on and use procmail to
> sort on 'List-ID'. Anything that ends up in the catch-all dir I don't
> really pay too much atte
Sascha Cunz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > I can't really tell, I was only stunned by the swift response from the
> > > spammer community. I received a spam mail only a few hours after posting
> > > for the first time with this address, which has been made only for
> > > re
> > [snip]
> >
> > I can't really tell, I was only stunned by the swift response from the
> > spammer community. I received a spam mail only a few hours after posting
> > for the first time with this address, which has been made only for
> > receiving gentoo-list mail.
>
> I would still guess that
Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [snip]
> I can't really tell, I was only stunned by the swift response from the
> spammer community. I received a spam mail only a few hours after posting
> for the first time with this address, which has been made only for
> receiving g
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:34, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > What about setting up some honey pots?
> > The list admin could for instance send some kind of email with unique
> > from field, and see what addresses respond.
>
> Interesting idea, but the spam mails you recieve probably come from a
> comple
As I said earlier, this is not so much of a problem, as it is an
annoyance. The real problem is of course that this list is the source
for email adresses.
What about setting up some honey pots?
The list admin could for instance send some kind of email with unique
from field, and see what addresses
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:53, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote:
> > I made my first post ever with this mail address to this list yesterday,
> > and already today I receive spam on it. Not such a big deal, since this
> > address is only used for receiving list mail, so anyth
Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote:
I made my first post ever with this mail address to this list yesterday,
and already today I receive spam on it. Not such a big deal, since this
address is only used for receiving list mail, so anything that isn't to
any of the lists is crap per se. But it's sti
Hi,
> Could anyone think of a resolution to this problem?
>
> Obfurscation of the mail archive?
It's not that easy at all - because most of the spamable-mail-adress-scanners
work differently.
Since everybody can subscribe to this mailinglist, one simply needs to write a
small mailer daemon whic
I made my first post ever with this mail address to this list yesterday,
and already today I receive spam on it. Not such a big deal, since this
address is only used for receiving list mail, so anything that isn't to
any of the lists is crap per se. But it's still no fun.
I'm aware that a similar
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