[83923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: List Phishing of e-mails from nanog
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Aug 31 04:13:33 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: jc dill <lists05@equinephotoart.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:10:12 +0200
In-Reply-To: <43155FFA.6080807@equinephotoart.com> (jc dill's message of "Wed,
31 Aug 2005 00:44:58 -0700")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* jc dill:
> 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:
And a there are probably a few NANOG subscribers who read the list on
compromised Windows machines. 8->
