Maybe I'm paranoid, but I wonder if this is an effort to disrupt the
list (as opposed to the usual economic incentives associated w/ spam.)
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On 10/30/12 8:09 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
I've placed the list under emergency moderation, so I will
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Greg Norcie g...@norcie.com wrote:
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I wonder if this is an effort to disrupt the
list (as opposed to the usual economic incentives associated w/ spam.)
I didn't see any spam from the list in Google Apps, except for the two
messages from a
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 07:32:18PM -0400, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
This mailing list has a spam problem (I'm receiving nude photo attachments
now.) Admins: Please address!
Hmmm, I'm not seeing this problem; I'm subscribed to liberationtech on a
bog-standard linux + postfix installation and I save
Greg: This seems to be happening in other lists at Stanford, and so I won't
be worried of a concerted effort against the libtech listserv. We are
working on it, and I hope that we'll be able to handle it soon.
Vivek
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Program on Liberation Technology,
Stanford University
I am one of the...people it got; my email address was suddenly
subscribed to more than thirty lists (Twenty maybe) none of which I
subscribed to.
I contacted someone...and have yet to do the second thing they suggested.
-S
On 10/31/12, S Vivek vivek...@stanford.edu wrote:
Greg: This seems to
Maybe someone is simply scrapping the archives for the sender address?
On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Sarah Watts wrote:
I am one of the...people it got; my email address was suddenly
subscribed to more than thirty lists (Twenty maybe) none of which I
subscribed to.
I contacted
Maybe. But the site was already mirrored for a while prior to the
archives being made public. So I think that's unlikely.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Andrew Lewis m...@andrewlew.is wrote:
Maybe someone is simply scrapping the archives for the sender address?
On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:36 PM,
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At a risk of receiving the mentioned spam myself (thankfully my mail provider
also seems to be killing the spam before it gets to me), and at risk of
offering another evidence-less possible scenario -
There was recently a valid e-mail account that
I used to do anti-phishing training for a start up.
Spammers aren't dumb.
They probably realize
1.) People in academia trust other academics
2.) People from Stanford have more disposable income than the average
mailing list recipient.
:)
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On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 18:39 -0400, Andrew Lewis wrote:
Maybe someone is simply scrapping the archives for the sender address?
Scraping archives is passe. Most likely scenario:
- random subscriber's Windows box got owned by botnet malware
- malware scraped their disk for address books and credit
This mailing list has a spam problem (I'm receiving nude photo attachments
now.) Admins: Please address!
Thank you,
NK
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