Alberta, I mostly agree but the original problem was, as Marilson
correctly identified, that someone who is subscribed to the list has a
bot residing on their computer that harvests any email addresses that
the user sees, and sends mildly offensive spam to them. They are NOT,
however, doing it VIA the list, but directly.
This wasn't caused by his forwarding Spam, this is caused by the list
putting the original sender of ALL messages in the "From" field, and the
spammers employing new tactics, namely in responding to emails as if
their spam was part of the discussion.
My evidence of this is that I am the original poster of this thread, I
sent it ONLY to the list, WITHOUT replying to any message, and I
immediately started receiving the Spam that Marilson was complaining
about. <sigh> Fortunately I'm on good terms with the mail administrator
of our company (it's me!) and can block it.
You probably are already aware of this, because you are probably now
receiving Spam directly to your inbox. Say hello to Samantha and Karla
for me! :-)
On 2018-04-20 10:29 AM, [email protected] wrote:
I am against banning attachments, as they can often be useful during
discussions. While google drive and other services can be used by
many, some of us here on this list including myself are barred by
network policies of using or connecting to such services, as they can
be used to leak confidential data. Therefore, this would leave me out
of any discussions involving attachments, as I likely would be blocked
from downloading them.
The true problem here was a member of the list forwarding one of their
spams to the list, which included the original email address. This is
the issue that we need to be more careful with. If someone continues
to have an issue with forwarding spam, consider removing that person
from the list, but please do not forbid attachments. For safety, I
often remove everything from the To and CC except for the list
address, so I know the message will not travel beyond the list.
I have been here for a bit over a year, and this is the first spam
attack that I have seen on the iist. I can always hope it will be the
last.
I read email in text based pine, and would have to specifically
download the images to ever be subjected to them. However, based on
the body, they look like the same type of subscription spam that
Craigslist used to have before they shut down their personals
section. The sender uses auto replies and different email addresses
for the reply to address in an attempt to fake a 2 way conversation
with a victim, trying to get them to sign up for a verification site
of which the spammer has an affiliate relationship.
This has not happened much since I have been here, and I think as
professionals that if we can be careful, it will not remain an issue.
Albert Erdmann
Network Administrator
Paradise On Line Inc.
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Josh Luthman wrote:
+1 no attachments
If you need to share an image please link to one of the many free image
hosting services. Some other binary file can be hosted with another
service (Google Drive, MS Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc).
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Brian Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
I would have to agree with others, most email lists I am a part of,
especially of this type, do not allow attachments these days.
--
Brian
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Chris James <[email protected]>
wrote:
+1
This list should NOT permit attachments.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:34 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Ron Grant <[email protected]>
wrote:
Please moderate the list. I don't want to unsub.
1. Slow down the train.
2. Marilson,the correct answer is: "I'm sorry. It won't happen
again."
I get that you don't like spam. I don't like spam either.
Forwarding a
spam with potentially pornographic content to this mailing list was a
real bonehead move. If you can't accept that it was an error, perhaps
you should be removed from this list.
3. Is there any compelling reason why this mailing list should permit
attachments in the first place? Can we not express our thoughts with
words?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
--
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Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
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