From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 10:40:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FD816A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:40:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dave.horsfall.org (mrdavi2.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.75.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A5FC43D39 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:40:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dave.horsfall.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id j1EAeeK22645 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:40:40 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:40:39 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050213205245.J94542@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Message-ID: References: <20050211034704.17082.qmail@mail.datahive.ca> <20050213205245.J94542@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: FusionPHP.net - Online Again Now!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:40:46 -0000 On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: > > Just another dirty spammer trick... > > The timing on this was nothing less than eerie because less than an hour > before that post came over, I'd been sitting on their site reading up on > FAQ's, forum problem posts etc with a view to installing the 'app. On their > homepage *was* a notice that they had just come back online after having > changed provider. > As you so presciently said, upon reading the post, my reaction *was* indeed; > "w0000t? eh?". However, the guys that wrote the app seem like eminently > reasonable sober sensible people, this just didn't sound like their style. > Thanks for the explanation! Of course, there is a chance that it was genuine, but the odds are against it. If you checked the IP address of the sender i.e. when it it the mailing list server and looked it up in www.openrbl.org you'll probably find it's an open proxy. I no longer have the post, so I can't tell. -- Dave