From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 24 09:03:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18215 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:03:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (root@po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA18208 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:03:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from baud.eng.umd.edu (baud.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.183]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA12934; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:02:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by baud.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.6.4) with SMTP id MAA06169; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:02:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: baud.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:02:46 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@baud.eng.umd.edu To: Andrew Perry cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM -- Aren't you the person....? (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Andrew Perry wrote: > 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'm somewhat curious why you felt you needed to transmit that entire 18K character spam to the whole list. Yes, I'd received it, but repeating it to the whole list was spam also. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------