From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 24 06:24:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA09893 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 06:24:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from croute.com (ishm2.croute.com [199.97.106.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA09887 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 06:24:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from bldg1.croute.com by croute.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17053; Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:23:49 CST Received: from COMPUROUTE/SpoolDir by bldg1.croute.com (Mercury 1.31); 24 Mar 97 08:23:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from SpoolDir by COMPUROUTE (Mercury 1.31); 24 Mar 97 08:23:20 -0600 (CST) From: "Larry Dolinar" Organization: CompuRoute, Inc. To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:23:11 -0600 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: SPAM -- Aren't you the person....? (fwd) X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Larry Dolinar" X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.53/R1) Message-Id: <929C7934594@bldg1.croute.com> Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk And the clouds parted on 24 Mar 97, and Andrew Perry said: >how many people on the lists have received this stuped spam in the last few >hours? I received it 3 times in a few seconds, once on an account which >i've only used to send about 3 mail messages, 2 of them to the lists. > >Is it possible that someone is spamming the list somehow? Or querying >majordomo for the addresses? Although the one account which i've only used >for a few messages wasn't even subscribed to the list. > >any ideas anyone? I haven't seen it yet, but I filter my mail from this list on a Windoze box at work, and nothing's turned up in my miscellaneous folder. It's just the standard pyramid scheme, with more fancy justifications. Trace the mail if you can and notify their ISP.