On 18 Oct 2015, at 12:19pm, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:
> Stephan Beal wrote: >> It didn't appear to come directly from the list - i suspect someone is >> scraping the ML archives. > > As far as I can see, the archives do not show the senders' actual email > addresses. Nor does nabble (hawk spit). Also, now it has got going I'm getting one piece of spam for every message I send to the list. Which suggests it's monitoring mail in realtime rather than scraping an archive. > I think it is more likely that someone is scraping somebody's mailbox. Yeah, someone has malware which is (among other things) reading their email. > This would be impossible to trace without putting a unique ID for the > receiver into the subject line of each message sent through the list ... Good idea, though the problem will probably go away before it gets implemented. Simon.
