[clug] Spam on list (was Re: Photo management?)

[Bob Edwards]

On 24/12/15 12:17, Keith Goggin wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>   No I got it with an earlier subject of "Permissions"
>

OK, time for the tin-foil hat...

So, mailing lists are so last-millenium and I am a one of those large
U.S.-based freedom-loving social-media sites ("All your comms are belong
to us!") and I want to frustrate your list membership to the extent
that they are willing to consider swinging over to my service where I
"can keep a closer eye on what you are all up to" - sorry, I meant
"offer you a superior online experience"... How do I do that?

Have a Merry Christmas!

Bob Edwards.

> On 24/12/15 12:06, Bob Edwards wrote:
>>
>> Yay! I'm getting the spam now - I wonder if it is being triggered by
>> the word "Photo" in the subject?
>>
>> I wonder if someone on the list (possibly long gone) has some sort of
>> auto-responder set up to spam anyone sending them anything about photos?
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Bob Edwards.
>>
>> On 24/12/15 10:31, Bob Edwards wrote:
>>> On 24/12/15 10:25, Neill Cox wrote:
>>>> I am (notionally) a list admin.
>>>>
>>>> Having looked at the headers of one of these spam mail there is no
>>>> sign it
>>>> went through the list server.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect someone has harvested emails and is pretending to send email
>>>> from
>>>> the list.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps we need to do some SPF / DKIM[0], but as we're currently on the
>>>> samba.org infrastructure we'll need some help from their admin team.
>>>>
>>>> Or, this might be another motivation for moving the CLUG list of
>>>> samba.org
>>>> and onto a domain we control.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Neill
>>>
>>> Given that there is no sign of any spam messages in this thread on the
>>> list archives, I would agree that they are not coming through the
>>> mailing list.
>>>
>>> As to whether or not this motivates anyone to changing the list setup,
>>> I'll leave that for others to decide...
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Bob Edwards.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> [0] I'm not suggesting that SPF / DKIM will completely solve this,
>>>> but it
>>>> would help some people at least.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Tim Potter <tpot at booleancandy.com.au>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> On 24 Dec 2015, at 8:52 am, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Same.
>>>>>> Reported it to the list admins, heard nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure who is list admin these days, but it's possible that
>>>>> this is
>>>>> occurring outside
>>>>> of the list.  Do the spam messages look like they are being sent by
>>>>> lists.samba.org?
>>>>>
>>>>> I imagine that this could be someone harvesting active email addresses
>>>>> from publicly
>>>>> available list archives and sending spam directly.  I'm not seeing any
>>>>> messages in
>>>>> my spam folder but they could be being filtered out upstream.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 23 Dec 2015, at 10:35 PM, Jeff NotTelling <smee.heee at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As an aside, is anyone else/everyone getting bombarded by Spam on
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> thread?  I've got 10 spam emails on this thread alone since
>>>>>>> yesterday.
>>>>>>> Just a bit surprised as I rarely see spam.  Just your typical
>>>>>>> Spam/Phishing, "I'm a hot girl, see my photo, all you need to do is
>>>>> fill in
>>>>>>> this form with your credit card, address etc, not that it will be
>>>>> charged"
>>>>>>> and so on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mailto:sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
>>>>>>
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