[83919] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: List Phishing of e-mails from nanog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jc dill)
Wed Aug 31 03:49:12 2005
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:44:58 -0700
From: jc dill <lists05@equinephotoart.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <0dd701c5a8d0$d3436340$6401a8c0@sativa>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Steve Brown wrote:
> Sweet, got my first piece of phishing SPAM (to the address I use for
> this list) shortly after posting a couple of days ago.
That's probably because the nanog list is gatewayed to a newsgroup.
Your posting address (and everyone else's posting address) has been
exposed to a news-trawling spider:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=nanog%40stellablue.org>
There's a reason I'm now using dated usernames for my mailing list
subscriptions. Between lists that leak addresses onto the web and news
servers, and other subscribers who get viruses and trojans on their
computer, there's simply no way to keep an email address out of the
hands of spammers anymore.
jc
