Having read and seen what people have said I understand now.
My apologies to the group.
I had no idea our actual email addresses showed up on Google
searches. No wonder this happened.
At 4/19/2011 01:11 PM, you wrote:
To my knowledge, the list hasn't been hacked, nor has anyone subscribed and
sent phishing attempts through the list. It is being mirrored/archived via
Nabble and a couple of others, I believe, which may be the source of the
email harvesting.
Larry Hiscock
Moderator
-----Original Message-----
From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:28 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked
I was about to mention that... his email address appears in 3+ dozen pages
in google. So unless there's some other evidence, I'm not worrying about the
list being hacked.
Robert
>>> George Gallen <ggal...@wyanokegroup.com> 4/19/2011 7:26 AM >>>
not to mention that the list is on search engines as well....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-
> boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Butera
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:27 AM
> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
> Subject: Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked
>
> On 04/19/2011 07:22 AM, u2list0...@curt.com wrote:
> > I just received a phishing attack addressed to my U2 Mailing list
> > email address.
>
> That doesn't mean the list was "hacked" (eg: found a way to scrape
> addresses from the outside). Anyone can join the list, harvest email
> from it and then use it for bad things. I've seen this before on other
> high-traffic lists I'm on.
>
>
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> Hampshire College
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