The spam message in question was apparently spoofed and did *not* originate from Jeff's PC. In the message header, note the Originating-IP was [84.27.224.19]. That IP address originates from a server at [Netherlands Groningen Ziggo B.v]. Jeff's actual IP address (which I won't repeat here) is significantly different and is located in the U.S.A.
Chuck, I think somehow the spoofers have overcome the obstacle you mention, unfortunately. (Otherwise how did the user of the Netherlands server manage to get spam through to our group?) -Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Harris" <cfhar...@erols.com> To: <j...@quikus.com>; "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 2 There has to be more to it than that. Knowing a member's email address is not a key into the time-nuts (or yahoo) lists. For instance, if I spoof my return and from addresses to be the same as my time-nuts subscribed email address, and send a message to time-nuts@febo.com from one of my non-subscribed email servers, it gets dutifully ignored. It came from the wrong email account on the wrong server. The simple Occam's Razor style answer, in my opinion, is the hijacked user's PC has been breached by a typical Windows PC trojan horse spambot program, and is spewing out spam emails through the hijacked user's PC's email program. Right? -Chuck Harris _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.