[CLUE-Talk] anyone else getting spammed? [Fwd: Re: clue.denver.co.us]

[Frederic Jean]

Hm... I actually need some spam right now to test something, so I guess
I will reply to the list...

Spam is the main reason why I went ahead and learned what I could about
hosting my own mail server, Spam Assassin, procmail, relaydb (ok, that's
on a OpenBSD box...). Although it has been a lot of work and effort, I
have seen the amount of spam delivered to my inbox drop down
considerably.

Oh! Oh! Look! Another one came through the filter!!! Time to test if
this is really working as I want it to be before I get back to actually
working...

Fred

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 11:36, Jim Ockers wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> > > [spamming list members]
> > 
> > Me three.  The list of list members is not available to the public, but
> > they can be harvested from the archives.  I'm not sure what facility
> > mailman has for protecting the archives other than turning them off.
> > One nice thing about having public archives is that we can search them
> > through google.
> 
> Unfortunately this problem is not something that may not be directly
> solveable by mailman, unless it obfuscates the sender's e-mail address.
> 
> What I believe has happened is that a spammer has subscribed to the
> list.  Therefore they would receive a copy of every message posted to
> the list.  From those messages they would have each sender's e-mail
> address, which they use to send spam back to each poster.
> 
> You only get spammed if you post to the list.  If you lurk only, then
> the spammer would not have your e-mail address.  I received that
> spam (which came from Romania, in the ROEDU.NET IP address space, by
> the way) within minutes or seconds of my post to the list.
> 
> Prior to that post, I had not received any such spam, because I'd only
> been lurking for a while.
> 
> Presumably the spammer subscribed to the list fairly recently, and
> therefore didn't have my e-mail address until I posted to the list.
> 
> As I say I'm not sure how to prevent this problem other than to have
> the list obscure everyone's e-mail address, or something.  In any case
> it would make the list a lot less useful because it would be a lot
> more difficult to get anyone's e-mail address to respond or e-mail off
> list, and how would you know if the person requesting your e-mail address
> was a spammer or not?
> 
> I hate spammers.
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