[6138] in RedHat Linux List
Re: spam, probably not from this list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Weible)
Tue Nov 26 00:08:16 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:40:15 -0700 (MST)
From: Todd Weible <toddw@cyberhighway.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611260342.TAA01028@jklaren.qualcomm.com>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Jon Klaren wrote:
>
> I was trying to figure out how spammers were getting my email addresses,
> and I asked if anyone had received spam from the three most recent
> spammers to grace my mailbox. Many people replied that they had, though
> no one had received spam from all three.
>
> I now realize a far more likely possibility... the linux-kernel mailing
> list, which has a mail2news gateway to linux.dev.kernel. I had
> forgotten about the news gateway, and now realize that it is far more
> likely that spammers sucked my name from posts to that list, than
> searching Red Hat's mail-list archives on www.redhat.com.
>
> In a rather unusual twist, the last email spam I received from the
> elusive "emerald@earthstar.com" was advertising software to assist in
> email spamming. So is that spam^2?
Spamming to sell spamming software is an interesting idea, perhaps if I
start breaking into my neighbors cars I can sell them a slim jim? Would
be better if they were offering to sell anti-spam software, oh well.
I got the same message, but I have never posted to the linux-kernel list.
Thought you may be interested in knowing this.
Todd
toddw@cyberhighway.net
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