Date   : Sun, 25 Oct 2015 16:01:42 +0000 (WET)
From   : bbcmicro@... (Peter Coghlan)
Subject: new message

>
> I don???t think it???s people subscribing to the list to send spam either. It
> looks more to me like the list is happily accepting messages from
> non-subscribers and forwarding them on. Even if actual subscribers were
> sending the messages to the list, they are all using the same From: address
> and if the list was filtering out non-subscribers then it would be easy enough
> to block it by removing the kate spam address that somehow got itself onto the
> list.
>

I'm not sure but I don't think this is the case.  I will check shortly.

>
> Going back through today???s deluge of spams, they are all coming from the
> same IP stream.trouts.org ([87.117.200.61]), so it isn???t different
> subscribers that are sending them, it???s all coming from a single source.
>

>
> This isn???t the first time this list has been bombarded by this ???Fw: new
> message??? spam, it???s been happening for a couple of weeks now, and from
> different email addresses.
>

Before today, there was a slow trickle which all had a from address associated
with a long standing member of the list.  I suspect todays deluge is probably
the same but I don't recognise the address.  If it is following the previous
pattern, the list is accepting the mails because the address is subscribed.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.