-----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 was somehow used to send spam to the list. It's quite conceivable that account is some way connected/has provided the beginning point. Or like the person from Stanford mentioned maybe the spam is targeting a number of Stanford lists.... On 31 Oct 2012, at 22:41, Yosem Companys wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 someone...and have yet to do the second thing they suggested. >>> >>> -S >>> >>> On 10/31/12, S Vivek <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> 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 >>>> http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu >>>> >>>> C 149 Encina Hall >>>> 616 Serra St. >>>> Stanford, CA 94305 >>>> >>>> Phone: 1-801-784-8357, that is 1-801-S Vivek's! >>>> >>>> Blog: http://viveks.info >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Andy Isaacson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 every message >>>>> delivered before I run spam filtering, and I don't see anything >>>>> porn-spam-related in my all-mail archive. >>>>> >>>>> Care to share one of the spam messages (headers + body text only, I >>>>> don't need any more nude photos thnx)? Offlist is bettter I suppose. >>>>> >>>>> -andy >>>>> -- >>>>> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >>>>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >>>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech - -------------------------------------- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQkatQAAoJENsz1IO7MIrrGmIIALgjzfbnvsd4bqRyx98UbSkc L2t1nny6L2gMjPdsfxL/ywNr90411i87RuVXBI2Y83wBAi37M6zpgbFw3UR23tmT u4skCXNFuW+A3exQVzEZ9IVIEawaqWFu5iDrb9qobLprelOGhf5IsDV23JbNEnsn OO9PFJXzRpdbSOKrnu/JzAnv6yMehRpHqNlL8o3bzrdGS+hC7ghpNbGWoFKtEM6G nIVQ5UWM/VVxZDwvw9WfTfYAgNySydub4hI8xFNx4RXVIbP7ktNZqeyWc2ZM+Yax HoI/tZX7YXrWeYEXNuXgtYVSIJXIm7OwvUtYh9b+W1O4TdpP6RU+I9EoLABELAA= =S7z4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
