Ted -- Thanks for the info you provided.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005, Ted Harding wrote: > I don't know what to suggest about it. It's extremely > irritating, and could be misinterpreted by people who don't > understand how it works, leaving a few of us with bad > reputations! What's intriguing is that only 3-4 groff > subscribers have ever appeared as "senders", most often > myself. If this were one of the standard spoofers, then > "senders" would be randomly chosen from someone's address > book or whatever, and by now many of us should have appeared. > Nor am I aware of this particular genre appearing on > other lists to which I belong (nor sent to other lists > which I manage, where I would see them in any case whether > they made it through or not). This tends to suggest > a certain selectivity or even targeting. Though not prone to conspiracy theories, I, too, get a "targetted" feeling from this. The spam is inevitably porn mpegs, the titles for are all similar, somehow (same sorts of misspellings, same upper/lowercase aburdities, etc). They have, in the past, come from only a few spoofed addresses, by far the most frequent of which is Ted Harding! I never get this type of spam appearing to come from other than gnu.org. Furthermore, my present email address has been bot-proofed to the greatest feasible extent. Given the precise nature of the spam target (the groff list), and the precise nature of the spoofed addresses (just a few groff list members), the only theory I can come up with is that someone is, or has, manually scanned the list and chooses victims from it. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
