[mythtv-users] OT: Spam?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Jul 30 16:45:50 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 30 July 2008 10:15:56 ccmail at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > The thing that makes the email the most suspect is it has the prepended
> > "[mythtv-users]" in the subject line.  I've gotten spam with the subject
> > line "Anjelina Jolie XXX Video Free." in the past and I think the header
> > could have easily been forged to make it seem like it came from the
> > address mythtv-users at mythtv.org.  But the fact that it also has the
> > subject line modified in the same manner as regular list messages is
> > highly suspect that it wasn't the listserv that processed the email.
>
> It WAS processed by the listserv.  I only get the combined MythTV digest to
> keep from getting flooded with MythTV email and it was in the digest (which
> is a single email with the last 30 or so mailing list messages).  It
> couldn't have gotten into the digest if it wasn't handled by the listserv. 
> A spammer has gotten ahold of the listserv posting address.  So be careful
> blocking the sender on that message because you may block everything from
> the list.

Folks, obviously somebody got past the list's spam filtering.

Often these idiots want to cause disruption to the list, and continuing to 
discuss the matter only encourages this.

Best solution is to ignore the matter, and let the list admin(s) do their job. 
It took me a fraction of a second to delete the obvious spam, but I've had to 
spend a lot more time deleting postings discussing it.

beww


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