[Aahz]
>>> Anyone else getting "Python-related" spam?  So far, I've seen messages
>>> "from" Barry Warsaw and Skip Montanaro (although of course header
>>> analysis proves they didn't send it).

[Thomas Heller]
>> I'm getting spam not only from Barry, but also from myself ;-) with
>> forged headers.  But I'm not sure what you mean with Python-related...
>> Not the contents, IIRC.

[Aahz[
> Thing is, I don't usually get spam "from" people I know (or at least it
> gets filtered before I see it), so someone is clearly using some resource
> of Python-related email addresses.  Just seems rather odd, and I wonder
> whether it's some kind of DoS attack or what.

It's been going on for years.  The most frequent forged "Python
related" sender address I've seen is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED],
followed (but not closely) by /F's [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Spammers
harvest legit addresses to forge via scraping web pages and via
Trojans scouring newbies' address books.  The latter probably accounts
for the very high rate of [EMAIL PROTECTED] forgeries.  Via the former,
anyone with a "public" email address can expect to see it get forged
sooner or later.

About two years ago I sent a polite email to a porn vendor asking them
to please stop forging one of my email addresses as the sender of
their spam.  They didn't reply, but within a few days I stopped
receiving porn spam claiming to come from me.  Frankly, I miss it :-)
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