There has to be more to it than that. Knowing a member's email address is not a key into the time-nuts (or yahoo) lists.
For instance, if I spoof my return and from addresses to be the same as my time-nuts subscribed email address, and send a message to time-nuts@febo.com from one of my non-subscribed email servers, it gets dutifully ignored. It came from the wrong email account on the wrong server. The simple Occam's Razor style answer, in my opinion, is the hijacked user's PC has been breached by a typical Windows PC trojan horse spambot program, and is spewing out spam emails through the hijacked user's PC's email program. Right? -Chuck Harris J. Forster wrote:
I own/moderate a number of Groups with>10,000 members total and I see about one of these a day. In most cases, the hijacker gets the victim's email address via a social media site. Apparently what happens is that when people sign up, the site grabs your address book unliss you are savvy enough to explicitly opt-out. When this happens, you can essentially kiss that email address goodbye. -John
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