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

[Keith Goggin]

Hi Bob,
  No I got it with an earlier subject of "Permissions"

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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