Chuck there have been several cases of Yahoo webmail address lists being hacked into recently, one was reported from the HP_Agilent group I think a couple of weeks back. I have also had several that seem come from "clean" machines on Groups I moderate but you have no control of how carefully your ISP looks after your webmail address list.
Alan G3NYK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Harris" <cfhar...@erols.com> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 2 (Spoofing) > I'm not convinced. Notice that the to: line contains a list of addresses that > look like they would belong in a time-nut's address book. That wouldn't be > beneficial, or necessary if the spammer was spoofing his way into febo's servers. > > I think this came from a spambot running on jeff's machine, and it emailed the > payload to as many places as it dared... one of them happened to be the time-nuts > address used for posting messages. > > -Chuck Harris 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.
