On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Marc Sherman wrote: > Marilyn Davis wrote: > > > > Could you trace it to any entity at all? > > > > Could you tell if it was advertising spam? > > All the joe jobs I've ever been hit by were virus outbreaks -- the virus > bots are replicating themselves indiscriminately around the internet, > sending mail with fake From: addresses, which sometime claim to be my > own (or those of other users on my server).
Yes. Virus. Of course. > > The most recent case was the neo-nazi virus outbreak earlier this year > (sober.q, I think it was called) -- I got a lot of bounces of those > messages apparently purportedly being sent "From:" my address. From > what I read on the net, that virus was primarily faking the addresses of > "prominent open source coders and advocates", so I felt pretty good > about that (after I got over the initial horror of reading some of the > messages I'd supposedly sent). I wouldn't be surprised if, in that > instance, my address had been harvested from this very list. > > I doubt those sender addresses were chosen as an attack on the owners; > rather, they were probably chosen to take advantage of any positive AWL > scores attached to those addresses. Yes. Political. Very interesting. Thank you. I guess, so far, my proposed point stands: Joe Job's are not about advertising spam. That would be counter-productive for an advertiser. Marilyn > > - Marc > > -- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
