[DECtalk] Another important message about last night's spam

mattias mj at mjw.se
Tue May 24 19:14:43 EDT 2016


thanks jayson

i love this list

but hate spams


Den 2016-05-25 kl. 01:13, skrev Jayson Smith:
> Hello again,
>
> I have put the member in question on moderated status. What this means 
> is that if they send more mail to the list, whether it's legitimate or 
> spam, I'll have to approve it. In the more than eleven years I've been 
> running this list, this is the first outright spam I've seen posted here.
>
> If your Email address begins with theheathbar and you have anything to 
> add to this discussion or if you've set up an alternate Email account 
> assuming your current account was compromised sometime in the past, 
> please contact me off list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jayson
>
> On 5/24/2016 7:00 PM, mattias wrote:
>> so we should tolerate spams on this list?
>>
>>
>> Den 2016-05-25 kl. 00:54, skrev Jayson Smith:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> It's not that I don't care. The reason I am not banning this spammer 
>>> is that this user has posted legitimate messages to the list before. 
>>> Furthermore, aside from changing their Email address everywhere, 
>>> there's nothing they can do now to stop the spam, now that it has 
>>> started happening. Rest assured, if someone subscribed to the list 
>>> for the sole purpose of sending spam, they'd be banned too quick to 
>>> talk about, and if that happened too often, I'd have to start 
>>> manually approving all subscription requests. But we're not there yet.
>>>
>>> Jayson
>>>
>>> On 5/24/2016 6:45 PM, mattias wrote:
>>>> so the admin on this list dont care?
>>>>
>>>> if you dont ban the spammer i will unsubscribe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Den 2016-05-24 kl. 19:15, skrev Jayson Smith:
>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>
>>>>> Earlier today, someone replied to one of the spam messages, asking 
>>>>> them to stop spamming. Unfortunately, this reply probably 
>>>>> contained the spam link in the original message, so it was 
>>>>> rejected as spam by a few providers. In the future, if spam goes 
>>>>> out on this or any other list, I would suggest just ignoring it 
>>>>> completely. Don't reply and ask them to stop, don't berate them 
>>>>> for spamming, etc. Just ignore it. If the spam came from someone 
>>>>> you happen to know, you could contact them privately and let them 
>>>>> know their Email account has probably been compromised, but once 
>>>>> spammers get hold of their address book, there's not much anyone 
>>>>> can do about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> The way this probably happens is as follows. Someone subscribes to 
>>>>> a list. This is usually someone using one of the mega Email 
>>>>> providers like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. Later, that 
>>>>> account's username and password are compromised. There are many 
>>>>> ways this could happen and I won't go into them here. At any rate, 
>>>>> whatever hackers or spammers now have that info log in and 
>>>>> download the person's address book. They then send Emails which 
>>>>> appear to come from that Email address to addresses in that 
>>>>> address book, hoping to catch that person's friends and associates 
>>>>> off guard. When such a message goes to a mailing list, the list 
>>>>> software accepts it, since it looks like a message from a 
>>>>> legitimate subscriber.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once I saw a message come to a few mailing lists from someone I 
>>>>> know from those lists. He said he was in England and had been 
>>>>> mugged, and was asking people to click a link to send him money 
>>>>> via Western Union or some other payment service. A few minutes 
>>>>> later, when the real person got wind of those Emails, he sent a 
>>>>> followup message to the lists explaining what had happened and 
>>>>> telling people not to believe those earlier Emails.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jayson
>>>>>
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