I wish I could say I did something clever. I just looked at the most recent
subscribers, picked the one that looked the most suspicious, and set them
to not receive emails from the list. I still get spams as replies to
earlier posts, but not any new ones since the change.

-wes

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for all the work Wes,
>
> If/when you know more about waht was going on, it would be great to
> learn how you went about solving it.
>
> Fighting SPAM is hard,
> Tomas
>
> On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 00:35 -0700, wes wrote:
> > At this time we are not requesting specific data (since I'm getting
> > the
> > same spams you all are, I already have all the same info you do).
> > Unfortunately anyone who has received these spams will probably
> > continue to
> > get them for some time while the spambot's script runs its course.
> >
> > What I'm looking for are new occurrences, which will be replies to
> > list
> > posts after noon on Wednesday. My suspicion is that there won't be,
> > but
> > there's no way to be sure without waiting some time to see that it
> > doesn't
> > recur.
> >
> > -wes
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]
> > m>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > >
> > >  The ones I received were all addresssed directly to me. And were
> > > in
> > > > response to messages I posted to the mail list. Each a bit
> > > > different, as
> > > > Dick reported. This morning's mail log review showed that several
> > > > were
> > > > rejected yesterday by the header_check rule.
> > > >
> > >
> > >   Here are the senders:
> > >
> > > Return-Path: <[email protected]>
> > > Received: from mail.alonefemale.com (mail.alonefemale.com
> > > [45.72.28.172])
> > >
> > > Return-Path: <[email protected]>
> > > Received: from mail-qk0-f226.google.com (mail-qk0-f226.google.com
> > > [209.85.220.226])
> > >
> > >   I received 3 from the first address, one from google, before
> > > blocking any
> > > more.
> > >
> > >   Wonder if this is one of the intrusive AI devices sold by google
> > > or
> > > amazon
> > > that's become bored sitting on a shelf in someone's home.
> > >
> > >
> > > Rich
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