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

[Bob Edwards]

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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