OK. Thanks guys!
There is also the issue of getting spam directly to my email address,
due to the fact that the email address is out there on the net in some
list archives somewhere, vulnerable to email-address spiders looking for
someone to point their spam cannons at. The careful ones, i.e.
you prompt us otherwise
it is just more spam ;)
The moderators can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Reshat Sabiq [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:21 AM
To: Tomcat Developers List
Subject: Re: Spam vulnerability at apache
I'm
If I am not mistaken, this email probably results from somebody on the
list having one of the many recent viruses. An email is being sent from
somebody's computer, with the From or Reply-to being tomcat-dev,
and the To being the Russian place. The russian site has an
auto-responder, and so it
Jeff Tulley wrote:
If I am not mistaken, this email probably results from somebody on the
list having one of the many recent viruses.
Actually, that is not necessary to see messages like this. All that
needs to happen is that someone who is infected has both the email
address of a subscriber
Quite correct, though usually it IS the case that they are a subscriber,
and that is why they have the address in their book. I personally am
quite surprised that a group of individuals technical enough to
participate in these forums would be falling prey to the viruses so
often, so maybe you are
Actually I have found the spam resulting from this list to be
negligible. That includes the user list.
On 04/13/2004 06:13 PM Jeff Tulley wrote:
If I am not mistaken, this email probably results from somebody on the
list having one of the many recent viruses. An email is being sent from
Adam Hardy wrote:
Actually I have found the spam resulting from this list to be
negligible. That includes the user list.
For that, you should thank the moderators of these two lists (Remy,
Ignacio, Yoav, and Mark) who patiently field all the spam from
non-subscribed addresses and filter out
I'm glad to hear that this doesn't involve DNS issues.
From this discussion, do i understand correctly that the following 2
addresses should be blocked?
1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If yes, it would be nice to somehow make this stuff systematic, so that
the regular lists don't have
Hi,
I extremely apologize for this message, but i think this needs to be
figured out. I just yesterday registered my new email address with
tomcat-dev, and i received the spam below almost immediately thereafter.
Only a few people are aware of this email address, so the origin of spam
info
I'm sorry to report that sending the message below, caused the
following to show up in my mail box. There is definitely something
fishy with the apache mail servers. This does not happen when i send an
email to a non-apache address. Please, let's fix this:
Your Mail has been bounced from the
Everyone on the list received these e-mails since they were sent to
the list. No harvesting was necessary.
As I understand it, the apache mailing lists are promiscuous in a way
and will easily/accidentally let any e-mail address subscribe as long
as it sends a reply to a subscribe confirmation
I think this is a combination of a misconfigured mail server at
one800.net and a bad e-mail address subscribed to the list. The mail
server is badly configured because it replied to sender instead of the
reply-to address. If it had replied to the reply-to address you would
never have seen it and
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