[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 :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
