All that has to happen is that a legitimate member of the list has his address book compromised. Then the spammer (not necessarily from the computer of the list member) sends spam to the entries in the address book, faking the 'from' address of the victim.
The mailman program that manages the Elecraft list sees a message from what appears to be a list member. Although it's possible to do content analysis, it's imperfect, sometimes deleting legitimate messages and sometimes letting spam through. I've seen a few in the past week. On 5/29/2011 6:08 AM, John wrote: > I sent John details separately, but I can assure you the junk email > messages I have received that look like they came from the QTH server > did come from/through the QTH server. I suspect many of you are not > seeing the messages because your personal spam filters are working FB. > > Anyone interested in the evidence (header analysis and Postfix log > entries) can contact me off list. It's exceptionally dull reading. > > John > > On 5/29/11 2:06 AM, John Ragle wrote: >> It looks to me like the [email protected] input filters have been >> compromised -- I am getting junk mail spam from the sex trade via the >> Elecraft server. I see that "QTH.COM" appears to be the underlying -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
