Re: Bizzare Postings in here lately
From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 13 May 2003 20:50:03 -0500 (CDT)
Fair enough! Hoping it stops, one way or the other...
The spam is *only* being POSTED to the forum, not sent directly through
to people's email, as far as I can tell. (Of course, then people who
get the posts delivered get them as email) I haven't had any of the spam
at my pcosupport email, for example.
Anyway like I say OBGYN.net knows about it, and if anyone has some good
suggestions on stopping it let us know!
At Tue, 13 May 2003, GoldenEagle wrote:
>
>Last I checked, Spam itself can't take over a person's address book.
>Viruses,
>worms, and Trojans can... and if someone received one of these nuisances in
>an e-mail, they would also be sending the Virus, or whatever, to the list
>with the
>junk mail also - since that is the sole purpose of this kind of attack (to
>spread the Virus).
>I have not seen anything like this come through.
>
>It is more likely that a spammer, or several spammers, have joined the list
>thinking
>it is a good way to bombard a lot of people with their junk. There are so
>many ways
>that they get around detection....
>
>E-mail addresses can also be picked up off the web by "Bots" that search web
>pages to gather e-mail addresses to add to their collection. If there are
>any scouring
>the PCOS pages, and our e-mail addresses are listed there with our posts,
>this could
>explain the spam as well. As mentioned before, Spammers have many ways of
>getting around detection and can very easily make the e-mails appear to be
>coming
>from a source they are not.
>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sonnet <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:03 PM
>Subject: Re: Bizzare Postings in here lately
>
>> My best guess is that someone who gets the forum posts delivered to them
>> via email has the email address for the forum in their address book.
>> Spam took over their email, and added the forum to their lists, thinking
>> it was another person's email. No idea who it's coming from, but since
>> it's started in a huge bunch in the last few weeks, I'd say someone
>> who's subsccribed to receive the forum posts via email recently. ???
>>
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