These spammers harvest email addresses from many public newsgroups and forums. The problem is also with all the archives that don't take out the email addresses from the posts. For example, http://groups.google.com/groups?group=mailing.openssl.users etc etc I'm not picking on any archive in particular. I'm happy that google provides archives. I'm just trying to show the point that all the email addresses are intact there. And this is the main problem with this kind of spam IMO. This is true of most lists.
----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:37 AM Subject: Re: Dodgy "Microsoft fix" emails To stop getting all these is it as simple as unregistering from the openssl mailing list? If that's so then I will do it. And the owner of this list IMHO without filtering these might as well just shut it down if they can't do anything about it given their OS limitations. Because this is totally unaccepatbel and unusamble when you get 500+ a day. And I'm on a few lists and have never had this happen before Wayne Rasmussen wrote: Is there some legal responsibility of mailing lists owner to prevent this? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Sierchio Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dodgy "Microsoft fix" emails Sorin Marti wrote: Frank wrote: es, tons of them 300+, please someone help!!!! Get a good OS! With Linux / Unix you never will have such probs... Facile and wrong. My mail servers are running a "real" OS, and scanning attachments for viruses and handling SPAM is a real burden -- esp. in the last week, with these really nasty worms. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
