Paul, Bob,
I've been receiving these too; I'd be happy to supply my batch of them.
What is the email for the contact address to which I should forward these?
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:18:10PM -0400, Paul Bransford wrote:
> 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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