On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Chris Wenn wrote: > > At 8:12 PM -0700 10/1/03, Robert Persson wrote: > >>I have also just subscribed and I am wondering about these emails. > >>I am subscribed to a number of lists so I don't know which one these > >>come from. Are the Debian lists particularly prone to this sort of > >>stuff, or have we just been unlucky? > > > > I couldn't tell you... This is the only debian list I'm subscribed > > to, and this is the only time I've shared my dslnorthwest addy with > > any new people in weeks, so... >it's coming from someone on this list< > > > > more likely that the virus - for that is what it is - has harvested the > debian-powerpc list addresses from somewhere and is planging on them > continuously. it's not hard to rip addresses out of the innumerable list > archives out there. use a spam-filtering mail proggy (mozilla mail, for > example), or set up spamassassin or something for yourself. Spammers and > virus writers get cleverer and cagier every day, so the only answer for us > poor shmoes is to be clevererer and cagierer...
The onyl real answer is to strip off e-mail addresses before archiving the posts to something accessible by a web browser, such as the Debian list server. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
