On Thursday 06 March 2008, paine_wwweb_
> > This spoofed e-mail(spam) was sent from
> > the following server....
>
> In order to prevent it from happening again, I'm going to place your
> membership on Moderated status. It should only be for a short time,
> but I hope it will allow me to catch any post made by this
> knucklehead before it enters the group, again.
Most spam these days is sent by spambots, which are programs that infect
people's computers and people never even know these programs are on
their computers. What's worse is that anti-malware programs often
don't catch them (but claim they do).
I get several emails a week from various idiot domain managers that
say, "Can't deliver, bad address," but their software is so primitive
it can't tell it's a forged email header. In other words, some twerps
are out there sending spam to people using my email address.
I can promise you that the same is happening for many others on this
list -- not because they're on this list, but if spammers have your
email to use to spam you, they can also use it in forging email
headers.
> This will not prevent your posts from getting into the group, Chip,
> but it will probably delay it a bit. I hope that doesn't cause a
> problem for you. Sorry for the inconvenience.
This was likely just an extreme "stroke of luck." By a rare chance it's
most likely that a spammer using Chip's email address just happened to
send it to this group, where he was known. They also probably sent the
same spam to a large number of Y! groups as well.
Hal
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