Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Greg Norcie
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.) -- Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com) GPG key: 0x1B873635 On 10/30/12 8:09 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: I've placed the list under emergency moderation, so I will

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Maxim Kammerer
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

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Andy Isaacson
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

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread S Vivek
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 = Program on Liberation Technology, Stanford University

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Sarah Watts
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

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Andrew Lewis
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

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Yosem Companys
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,

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Greg Norcie
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. :) -- Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com) GPG key: 0x1B873635

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Matt Mackall
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

[liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-30 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
This mailing list has a spam problem (I'm receiving nude photo attachments now.) Admins: Please address! Thank you, NK -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech