On 12/4/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: > There is a new style of spam (well, not that new) that spoofs your return > address and sends out massive amounts of messages to random people (it has > a specific name I can't recall). Then you get all the bounces (because a > percentage of people will always bounce).
That would be called a "Joe Job", see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job>. > What you're describing sounds an awful lot like this. Especially since you > have set up bounces for your list not to come to you. It sounds like the > address that was spoofed was one used by MM, which would slow down the > system for sure. If they were originally sent out with the appropriate listname-bounces address, and the joe-job bounces were coming back to the list and it was trying to process them, then yes -- this would certainly explain a very heavy load on the system. Otherwise, I'm not sure I have enough information to be able to make any more comments on this particular problem. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
