From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 14 21:56:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 95B1AD46 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisstankevitz@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x230.google.com (mail-la0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D9E89D3 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisstankevitz@gmail.com) Received: by labko7 with SMTP id ko7so46922648lab.2 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:56:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=4uKaLjkNgcBSwayzbMe3Kefglm1McsKaFbr5dWVktcA=; b=jC2hw4ZlBameQLXYmADmIkv4OnQ2blBMZrbpXuf33K7+BklnqoYNhT58AhwEzsFUMJ hyDSjWLVE6Wsf9X4koP3zDvEa6JqJBJEigXmDON2dZPliNSNyf6+EPKDCPv70xWP67rF vlDyIrq8Mfa3kKIZ2Z8LzF1ta4nxshLTazfsZGYA8h+522+eiU7tXkhhOQeCg/C3QQeU TOWDF3zS5adYx4fAyBawvC9g7tK+J1uf3TjbHkxUd8kl49Y5o1o/gf4cfXme5lgs8A/s sWVentdgfoKbdKOknwZsWMwENXDjpN9Uy2mf73aoJEMIXx4MLwNCbL42d4/3w5qzCZy8 TenA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.23.4 with SMTP id i4mr24112608laf.51.1434318975330; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:56:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.42.146 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:56:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:56:15 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: freebsd-questions generated spams! From: Chris Stankevitz To: Yass Amed Cc: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:56:17 -0000 On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Yass Amed 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