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Re: spam, probably not from this list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Tue Nov 26 01:10:02 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:55:33 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199611260342.TAA01028@jklaren.qualcomm.com> from "Jon Klaren" at Nov 25, 96 07:42:41 pm
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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.
Very true. BTW, redhat-list is/can be gated just as easilly. We have
it here as linux.something.redhat. In any case, this is (and recently
linux-biz) pretty much the only place I post regularly.
> 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?
ditto on this one. Anyone tracked down the admin and such for this
site? I've been meaning to do it. I asked once to be removed from
their list, and now I'm mad. ;)
--
-Otto
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