Re: [SLUG] slug list mail

From: Paul Bransford (draeath@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 23:18:10 EDT


Bob,

Forward the whole message (all headers included) to them. It certainly
couldn't hurt! But they will need all the headers for it to be of any use.

On 05/14/2010 10:10 PM, Bob Stia wrote:
> 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
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> To: slug-track29@slug-list-00.ssn.nks.net
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