[mythtv-users] Is MythTV an open forwarder? (was Re: OT: Spam?]

C.T. Paterson i.adore.my.64 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 22:48:18 UTC 2008


2008/7/30 C.T. Paterson <i.adore.my.64 at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/30 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
>> On 07/30/2008 10:30 AM, Peter VanDerWal wrote:
>>>>> If anyone can post to the list without signing up, this is a bad thing
>>>>> and
>>>>> can lead to more spam. I suspect this is the case, since most spammers
>>>>> are
>>>>> too lazy to keep signing up.
>>>> Though I'm pretty certain that anyone can send an e-mail with an
>>>> appropriate From: header (i.e. one that uses the e-mail of a subscribed
>>>> member) .
>>> Well, the message in question came "From:" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>> If that's all it takes to get spam onto the list...
>>>>> If it's an open list, then I'll probably quit.  My spam filters catch
>>>>> 99.9% of spam, but won't catch any coming in from MythTv.org
>>>> Fortunately, the mythtv.org spam filters catch 99.9999% of spam to the
>>>> list.  I'm thinking Isaac mentioned getting some 100 spam messages to
>>>> the list every 5 minutes or so (at least for a while).
>>> Well, hopefully someone hasn't found a simple way to get past the filters.
>>>
>>> I don't mind getting one spam every month or so, but when you have to
>>> start sorting through the crap to get the content, it's not worth it any
>>> more.
>>
>> It was one e-mail.  I think if a spammer found the magic bullet, you'd
>> never find this e-mail in all the junk that would be coming through.
>>
>> Mike
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>
> I have received several copies of the spam in question; none of them
> had [mythtv-users] in the subject line, and all of them were addressed
> to a gmail address OTHER than what I use on this thread.
>
> Personally, it does not look to me like it came from the list.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>

I'm mistaken - a closer look reveals that I did receive one with the
[mythtv-users] prefix.

Apologies...don't mind me.


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