Apparantly there are a few new varients of blaster and bagel out there, our local news station ran a story on it. I'm guessing a bunch more non-patched, non-updated XP's got owned and are sprewing spam.
George >-----Original Message----- >From: Larry Hiscock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 2:34 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [U2] [OT] Has anyone exoerienced a HUGE increase of Spam? > > >It's unlikely that the list is being used directly for spam >for two reasons: > >1) The lists are "closed" lists, which means that one must be >subscribed to >the list in order to post to it. > >2) The majordomo commands to retrieve the list of subscribers have been >disabled, so one cannot harvest the addresses on the list. > >The only persons with access to the full subscriber list are >the moderators. > >Regards, > >Larry Hiscock >Moderator > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debster >Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:22 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [U2] [OT] Has anyone exoerienced a HUGE increase of Spam? > >I have experienced a HUGE increase in SPAM lately and I was >wondering if >somehow the users list has been "utilized" to facilitate that. > I am not >thinking that the origin is knowingliy from the administrators >of this fine >list -- but if this list was somehow lifted or otherwise absconded... >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
