Re: Obama -- The Judas Goat

[Andrew Stormont <andyjstormont googlemail com>]

I'm also getting similar spam on the /GPE/ mailing list.

Where will they strike next?!?!


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 20:22 -0200, Alexandre wrote:
>  The worst is that I received it from 4 different mailing lists, from
> different people (I think the Conduit and Banshee were from the same
> person). Someone said it was occuring with the Gnome lists, but the
> Google Summer of Code also got it. 
> I just hope it stops now, it is hard to filter coming from different
> people, and even more difficult if they are spoofing valid emails.
> 
> Alexandre Rosenfeld 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Adam Williamson
> <awilliamson mandriva com> wrote:
>         On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 11:09 -0500, Nick Marshall wrote:
>         >
>         > Why are we getting spam on the list? Can someone kick-bane
>         the
>         > spammer?
>         
>         This spam is a new type which, if I'm figuring correctly, goes
>         through
>         the mail archives (probably automated for popular archive
>         types), pulls
>         out a legitimate address, and fakes it as the From: address.
>         Not sure
>         how easy it'd be to filter, as it'll probably be using random
>         IP
>         addresses from a botnet or something as the real originating
>         address.
>         It'd probably be pretty easy to tell it's not really Otte who
>         sent it
>         (even without looking at the content and the completely wrong
>         name), but
>         as for reliably banning the system that *is* sending it, that
>         might be
>         harder...
>         --
>         adamw
>         
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