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

mattias mj at mjw.se
Tue May 24 19:00:14 EDT 2016


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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