From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 24 07:25:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA13188 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gbdata.com (USR1-1.detnet.com [207.113.12.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA13177 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08391; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:25:03 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199703241525.JAA08391@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: SPAM -- Aren't you the person....? (fwd) To: larryd@bldg1.croute.com (Larry Dolinar) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:25:03 -0600 (CST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <929C7934594@bldg1.croute.com> from Larry Dolinar at "Mar 24, 97 08:23:11 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Larry Dolinar wrote: > 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. > > Its a worldnet customer, again... I sent a letter to them and got an auto reply back:( Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii