[5464] in RedHat Linux List
Re: spam from this list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Thu Nov 21 17:32:38 1996
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:51:50 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been receiving more and more unsolicited email lately. And I'm
> trying to figure out why. I don't give my real name or email address
> when filling out forms on web pages, and I haven't participated actively
> in usenet newsgroups for over a year. The only public forum where I do
> frequently participate is this mail list.
>
> So it makes me wonder... Is there a spammer subscribed to the list just
> to collect email addresses? Is some spammer's robot gleaning email
> addresses from the mail list archives on www.redhat.com? I can't figure
> out how else they might be getting my address.
>
> Just to see, has anyone else on this list received spam lately from
> info@maraphone aka maralist@icgroup.net
> Emerald@earthstar aka emeraldette@pop.a001.sprintmail.com
> autumn@industry.net aka autumn@gtwinc.com
> If so, that would make it a little more likely that this list was the
> source for the spammer's collection of names.
>
> I know how to use procmail to filter this stuff out, but it's hard (and
> annoying) to keep the filter up to date with every bogus sender and
> subject line they invent.
>
> -Jon
>
> --------
> Jon Klaren
> San Diego, CA USA
> jklaren@qualcomm.com
>
Yes, Jon, I've been getting email from these "sites" and a couple of
others. Just blew the adverts away and ignored them, but was wondering
if someone is milking the redhat-list. Annoying, at best.
--Rickf
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