[mythtv-users] OT: Spam?

Jonathan Sambrook jonathan at hmmn.org
Wed Jul 30 15:33:27 UTC 2008


On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:32:40 -0500
"Marc Randolph" <mrand at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Petteri Matilainen
> <pmatil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just received a mail from mythtv-users at mythtv.org, titled
> > "[mythtv-users] Anjelina Jolie XXX Video Free." Why does mythtv list
> > send spam? The mail says I have subscribed to MSN featured offers. I
> > didn't know I did, and even if I had, this is clearly a virus-spam
> > message. How to disable these in the future? List configuration
> > doesn't say anything about this.
> 
> The email almost certainly has a forged header in attempts to get past
> your spam filters.  In other words, if you go to "Show Original" and
> study the header, you will likely find it didn't actually come from
> mythtv.org at all.

My copy was received from the same IP (140.211.167.131 a.k.a
www.mythtv.org) that all other [mythtv-users] comes in from too - so
looks like it is list spam.

:(


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