Date   : Tue, 10 May 2005 11:07:06 +0100
From   : Richard Gellman <splodge@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb versus Master?

Mike Tomlinson wrote:

>>P.S. Has anyone else been receiving spam via this list? Given that posts 
>>are supposed to require your sending email address matches that which 
>>you subscribed with, I find it interesting that spam is making it through...
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, I have.  I have been deleting it on sight, but when the next one
>comes through, will examine the headers.  I don't think it's coming via
>the mailing list, as my email client automatically sorts mail from the
>list into a pseudo-newsgroup, whereas the spam is ending up in my inbox.
>  
>
Ah! Now thats interesting, because my mail system sorts the mail on the 
server (no, I'm not deviant enough to run Exchange), and dumps 
everything with [BBC-Micro] in the subject line into the BBC Micro 
folder. That means the incoming email needs to have [BBC-Micro] in its 
subject line before it reaches me.

Thats what made me think the list was being used as a spam-the-masses tool.

-- Richard