Date   : Sun, 25 Oct 2015 16:22:10 +0000
From   : mike@... (Michael Howard)
Subject: new message

On 25/10/2015 16:01, Peter Coghlan wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
I've had a few on the odd occasion recently, but none today.

Mike.

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