Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread Michael Dexter
On 7/4/18 12:04 PM, wes wrote: Everyone please continue reporting occurrences of spam in this thread. Thanks! Thank you everyone who is taking this on, especially wes! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Nice work Wes. Thank you. Ditto that. +2 Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread Dick Steffens
On 07/05/2018 06:37 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Nice work Wes. Thank you. Ditto that. The last one I have is from 3:28 this morning, but it's probably still part of the script from yesterday. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Nice work Wes. Thank you. On 2018-07-05 00:35, 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

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, 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

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread wes
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,

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
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

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread wes
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

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Jim Garrison wrote: Do you have the ability to save raw emails including all headers to a file? If you accumulate several SPAMs and send me a tarball or zip file to p...@jhmg.net (a throwaway address) I can take a look to see if I can identify a sender. Jim, On their

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/04/2018 05:17 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: On 7/4/2018 2:27 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 07/04/2018 04:20 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: Mine were sent directly to me, not the list. I've got today's in my Junk folder. What info from headers is wanted? So someone is subscribed to the list and

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Jim Garrison
On 7/4/2018 2:27 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/04/2018 04:20 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > Mine were sent directly to me, not the list. > I've got today's in my Junk folder. What info from headers is wanted? So someone is subscribed to the list and sending emails direct to people who post,

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Jim Garrison wrote: Is the To: address the list or your specific email? Jim, 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

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/04/2018 04:20 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 07/04/2018 02:13 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: Is the To: address the list or your specific email? If you examine the headers, does the mail traverse through domain spiretech.com, which seems to be the domain hosting the list manager. I'm seeing

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 07/04/2018 02:13 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: Is the To: address the list or your specific email? If you examine the headers, does the mail traverse through domain spiretech.com, which seems to be the domain hosting the list manager. I'm seeing almost none of the SPAMs people are reporting

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 07/04/2018 12:04 PM, wes wrote: Everyone please continue reporting occurrences of spam in this thread. I've had three more after that one. It looks like "they" keep track of how I've responded on the list and vary their follow ups with increasingly bad porn, each message a little

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Richard Owlett
I've received three today from Melina Taylor All used my email address and were replies to posts I made to the list. I've marked them as junk in SeaMonkey. I'll see how effective its Bayesian filtering. Otherwise I just create a specific filter. On 07/04/2018 02:04 PM, wes wrote: Everyone

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread wes
I doubt it was directed - these things are heavily scripted these days. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Groman wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 01:09:11 -0700 > wes wrote: > > > The list admins are working on this issue. I was getting the ones from > > "Melina Taylor" today. > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Thomas Groman
On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 01:09:11 -0700 wes wrote: > The list admins are working on this issue. I was getting the ones from > "Melina Taylor" today. > > I'm pretty sure the customer support ones from a few months ago > weren't really spam, but just a case of emails being unintentionally > routed to a

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread wes
Everyone please continue reporting occurrences of spam in this thread. Thanks! -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > And now I've received an invite for, "a funny hang out, if you know what I > mean," from "Melina Taylor", too. Sigh. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens >

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 07/04/2018 06:14 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, wes wrote: I'm pretty sure the customer support ones from a few months ago weren't really spam, but just a case of emails being unintentionally routed to a support queue. Probably some IT worker was subscribed with his work email

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, wes wrote: I'm pretty sure the customer support ones from a few months ago weren't really spam, but just a case of emails being unintentionally routed to a support queue. Probably some IT worker was subscribed with his work email account, and then left that job and his

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Jul 2018, Tomas Kuchta wrote: We seem to have increased presence of spammers on the list either as registered members or someone is compromised. Tomas, My experiences are limited to the the two you mention here: Do you get response from customer support like the one mentioned

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread wes
Oh, I forgot to answer your actual question: Michael Dexter is the primary admin for PLUG. -wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:09 AM, wes wrote: > The list admins are working on this issue. I was getting the ones from > "Melina Taylor" today. > > I'm pretty sure the customer support ones from a few

[PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Tomas Kuchta
We seem to have increased presence of spammers on the list either as registered members or someone is compromised. Do you get response from customer support like the one mentioned by Rich couple of months ago or Melina Taylor lovelygirl...@lovelynsacusal.pw or ...? I get spam only when I post