Re: shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > Joel Rees wrote: >> (1) These messages may be a sort of generator for phishing targets. > > You mean that those who hit the "Smack Sender" button of their mail > app show up as flotsam here and can be harvested without reveili

Re: shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

2017-07-09 Thread Fungi4All
> From: scdbac...@gmx.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> this conversation has gone viral itself. > It is technically interesting to see what people think how stupid we > are. I wonder if there is any other purpose than to make me wonder ? Politically, the motive may be by some who will nee

Re: shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

2017-07-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Fungi4All wrote: > I remember 2 months ago I had received a response from what appeared > as a list member responding to some spam that was sent by me to the list. The first thing i checked on the current spam was that it is really distributed by the list and not sent to me directly. "Receive

shadow spam (was Re: stop your mail)

2017-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
Can I suggest two possibilities not apparently being considered? (1) These messages may be a sort of generator for phishing targets. (This is not currently a likely scenario, but you want to consider it.) (2) These might be either the body of a message sent by a spatter steganography technique, o