Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:31:36 -0700 From: Jeffry Killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> Cc: Yass Amed <zagazaw2004@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-questions generated spams! Message-ID: <363CACB8-49C3-4760-A769-68452DDD5D38@prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPi0pstXa8ew-Fgw1_MiVWxVJ030Vpp_UYhBB7xaZONw7meNfQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALvWPyYGs4CZURAjMtCicabEPV45yH01Ssi5wogUsMUUmvnWaA@mail.gmail.com> <CAPi0pstXa8ew-Fgw1_MiVWxVJ030Vpp_UYhBB7xaZONw7meNfQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 14, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > 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. To add a bit to this discussion: Could also a relay proxy mail server that is been monitored for trafic to this list and generating auto responses. I put some html in a publicly available site with a textarea element that was not screened. When I contacted the site to look at it myself There was the spinning ball (Mac OSX0) for a second or so. Then a bunch of oriental text appeared in the field. I did not do anything to cause that as the site administrator. So my suspicion is that a proxy was injecting text into the html in transit over the network. I also have had e-mails intercepted and responded to by agencies other than the intended recipient. JK
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