Thanks for letting us know Jim. I was frightened to reply for all the usual hacker reasons. I'll take you off my spam list now!
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:50 PM Jim MacConnell <j...@consensustech.com> wrote: > That was my fault. Someone used my email to sign up for mailing lists, > sites, etc. I got emails asking for email verification or just informing me > that "I" had joined roughly 4,000 lists in a couple of hours and it was > continuing. Used an email rule to respond with a "Not Me" notice and delete > the emails BUT I inadvertently applied the rule to existing emails instead > of only new ones coming in. that means even lists I want to be on got > notices... Dman. > Sorry for the noise. > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Haworth [mailto:p...@lcsql.com] > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 12:07 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Unusual list spam - caution > > I got the same type of emails delivered to my personal email address, both > from Jim McConnell. Sure sounds like the mailing membership has been hacked > somehow. Could this part of the ddos attacks on the forum that have been > mentioned recently? > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:22 AM J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > wrote: > > > I'm not sure what this means but it probably deserves a heads-up. I > > received three emails today that appeared to be replies to the three > > list posts I made yesterday. They were all from the same person, whose > > name I do not recognize. The entire text of the message was: > > > > This registration used a hijacked email address! > > > > followed by a quoted copy of my post. There was no other text. > > > > When I first saw these on my Android tablet they each included an > > enclosure of different lengths. That was the tip-off to check the > > headers, since this list does not allow enclosures. The headers of a > > real list mail include "on-rev.com", these had no mention of the > > on-rev domain. They all came from a private user domain via Quest. > > > > I then retrieved the email on my Mac and there are no enclosures > > listed for any of the three. I'm not sure where they went, I didn't open > them. > > They may have been copies of the quoted posts but I'm not sure. > > > > At any rate, something odd is going on so keep an eye out. > > > > -- > > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
