> > >Very probably. People who are <tactful> in the > unfortunate position > > ></tactful> of using Windoze but are subscribed to > the mailing list > > >could well have their computers acting as a spam > bot without their > > >knowledge. :-( > > > > > > It's more likely that people subscribe and then > spam. > > I suspect Casper's theory is true based on my own > observations. >
Nah. If you look at the headers and even the bottom of the post, the spam is injected through opensolaris.org's forum software: Headers: ------------------------------------------------- Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from oss-app1 (unknown [72.5.123.64]) by mail.opensolaris.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EE48ECDB for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------- Headers end: Bottom of message: ------------------------------------------------- This message posted from opensolaris.org ------------------------------------------------- Bottom of message end: You won't get this from posts sent in via email. Some scripter is spamming through the forum application. This is a very common problem facing webmail providers/hosters and there are even stuff out there that will enable you to use a webmail account as if it was a pop3/smtp server. In my previous job, I had to write a simple c program to help identify accounts being used by scripting spammers and other criminals such as 419 scammers and automate the disabling of those accounts. Christopher Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
