On 01/08/2019 01:25 PM, John Rollins via cctalk wrote:
That they found an address used only for a certain mailing list makes it more interesting. Doing a quick Google search it looks like the list archives can be searched through, and while the addresses appear to be slightly obfuscated using “at” instead of “@“, it’s feasible that the address was picked up by a random email address scraping of web data.
I've wondered if some unscrupulous person has subscribed to the list so that they can receive a steady stream of email addresses that they can potentially send spam / phishing emails to.
I don't remember ever getting one of these types of messages. So I can't comment about them with anything other than 2nd (or more) hand knowledge. Though I run fairly tight anti-spam / anti-virus configuration on my server.
I would actually be interested in seeing full messages source, including headers, for some of the messages. (If anyone is willing and interested in sharing.)
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
