On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:34:43AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > Michael Scheidell wrote: >>> From: Arthur Dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:52:12 +0100 >>> To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> >>> Subject: Spam from the list? >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> >>> The worrying thing for me is that this is an email address I have only >>> recently created and have ONLY ever used for subscribing to this list (I >>> >> >> You email address IS public now, SA list is mirrored on several web servers. >> Email harvesters will find it. >> > Well, now, yes.. however, the OP did say he hadn't used it for posting. > Doesn't matter how many mirrors there are. >> Also, (not sure what list) but the 'backdoor' email address we use to send >> copies of this list (and others) to our internal public folders was also >> spammed. We never used that to post, so they must have gotten it from one >> of the lists web pages. >> > Hmm, that's odd, as the subscriber list shouldn't ever appear on a web > archive mirror. The only addresses there would be those actually appearing > in posts via From, Cc or body text. > > I'm hoping this is just name generation coincidence.. Spammers extensively > use dictionary attacks, and unless your email address is highly > un-guessable (ie: aurthur's mlists is pretty guessable) it will eventually > be found by spammers even if it's never used anywhere.
Yes. True... I should also point out that the address I was subscribed with previously ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) was NEVER spammed and I used that (and posted) for years. In fact I came to trust this (and other) list(s) so much that I decided to create a generic one for all my mailing lists instead of one for each... > > I intend to do some testing to see what's going on.. Thanks - I really hope it's just coincidence... All the best... Mark >
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