Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:56:15 -0700 From: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> To: Yass Amed <zagazaw2004@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-questions generated spams! Message-ID: <CAPi0pstXa8ew-Fgw1_MiVWxVJ030Vpp_UYhBB7xaZONw7meNfQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALvWPyYGs4CZURAjMtCicabEPV45yH01Ssi5wogUsMUUmvnWaA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALvWPyYGs4CZURAjMtCicabEPV45yH01Ssi5wogUsMUUmvnWaA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Yass Amed <zagazaw2004@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I replied to a topic on this mailing list and immediately started getting > Chinese spam emails. Is there a breach in the server? Does the server > (un)intentionally forward mail? I'm puzzled?! Yass, I get the same thing. Presumably since (1) the list is visible to anyone and (2) your email address is posted to the list, then (3) any enterprising person could harvest the email addresses of contributors and send them spam. A breach of the server is not needed to accomplish this. Chris
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