[LUGSB] Is there an admin in the house?

[Michael Hrivnak]

The Archives are publicly accessible, so they're probably harvesting addresses 
there.

http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pipermail/lugsb/

Michael

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 7:53:24 pm Nicholas Lopez wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2008 4:26 PM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:43:12AM -0500, William Lahti wrote:
> > > Spam is suddenly pouring into the list. What happened?
> >
> > Not sure. Nick did you make any changes to mailman?
> >
> > Gah! It looks like the list got hit by a spammer who had the From address
> > be that one of the subscribers. There's no reasonable way around this - I
> > haven't even noticed the spam because my spam filer caught it all.
>
> Nope, I haven't changed any Mailman settings. I am going to see if our
> members list is exposed to non-subscribers anywhere. The spam emails
> (which I, too, didn't see thanks to Gmail's spam filter) originate
> from several different IP addresses and forge several different
> subscribers names and email addresses.
>
> ngl
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