On Tuesday 11 May 2010 10:13:17 pm Bob Stia wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 12:14:27 am Paul M Foster wrote:
> > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:32:35PM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> > > Hello sluggers,
> > >
> > > Is anyone else getting these spam/informational emails directed to a
> > > slug- track address and showing up on my mailing list? Just started a
> > > couple of days
> > > ago. Two or three a day.
> >
> > I've contacted NKS about this. Apparently, someone is sending spam to
> > select members of this list, masqueraded as list emails. They are not
> > list emails, but they may look, to some extent, like them. This would be
> > relatively easy to do-- some spammer signs up for the list, collects
> > addresses as they post or reply, and then gets off the list.
> >
> > One way you know they aren't from the actual list is that you're getting
> > more than one of these emails. The first time I saw someone actually
> > spamming the list, I would knock them off the list. End of story. And I
> > haven't seen this happen. One way I know this isn't happening is that
> > *I'm* not getting these emails. I only see them when they bounce from
> > your ISPs.
> >
> > The problem is that some ISPs, noticing these spam emails apparently
> > coming from our listserv, are now blocking all email from NKS list
> > servers, in particular Verizon and gte.net. Hopefully, NKS will handle
> > this shortly.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Thanks Paul,
> Glad to hear you know about it. Hopefully NKS can do something.
>
Paul,
Following is a copy of the type of mail that I am getting. Maybe it will be
helpful to NKS? Do they have any idea as to what is happening?
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Date: Fri May 14 02:57:52 2010
From: "Drew Terrell" <crossbreedshdol09@snackbar.ru>
To: slug-track29@slug-list-00.ssn.nks.net
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