[liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

[Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb]

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At a risk of receiving the mentioned spam myself (thankfully my mail provider also seems to be killing the spam before it gets to me), and at risk of offering another evidence-less possible scenario - 

There was recently a "valid" e-mail account that was somehow used to send spam to the list. It's quite conceivable that account is some way connected/has provided the beginning point.

Or like the person from Stanford mentioned maybe the spam is targeting a number of Stanford lists....

On 31 Oct 2012, at 22:41, Yosem Companys wrote:

> Maybe. But the site was already mirrored for a while prior to the
> archives being made public.  So I think that's unlikely.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Andrew Lewis <me at andrewlew.is> wrote:
>> Maybe someone is simply scrapping the archives for the sender address?
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Sarah Watts wrote:
>> 
>>> I am one of the...people it got; my email address was suddenly
>>> subscribed to more than thirty lists (Twenty maybe) none of which I
>>> subscribed to.
>>> 
>>> I contacted someone...and have yet to do the second thing they suggested.
>>> 
>>> -S
>>> 
>>> On 10/31/12, S Vivek <vivekdse at stanford.edu> wrote:
>>>> Greg: This seems to be happening in other lists at Stanford, and so I won't
>>>> be worried of a concerted effort against the libtech listserv.  We are
>>>> working on it, and I hope that we'll be able to handle it soon.
>>>> 
>>>> Vivek
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> =====
>>>> Program on Liberation Technology,
>>>> Stanford University
>>>> http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu
>>>> 
>>>> C 149 Encina Hall
>>>> 616 Serra St.
>>>> Stanford, CA 94305
>>>> 
>>>> Phone: 1-801-784-8357, that is 1-801-S Vivek's!
>>>> 
>>>> Blog: http://viveks.info
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 07:32:18PM -0400, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
>>>>>> This mailing list has a spam problem (I'm receiving nude photo
>>>>> attachments
>>>>>> now.) Admins: Please address!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hmmm, I'm not seeing this problem; I'm subscribed to liberationtech on a
>>>>> bog-standard linux + postfix installation and I save every message
>>>>> delivered before I run spam filtering, and I don't see anything
>>>>> porn-spam-related in my all-mail archive.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Care to share one of the spam messages (headers + body text only, I
>>>>> don't need any more nude photos thnx)?  Offlist is bettter I suppose.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -andy
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>>>>> 
>>>> 
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Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb

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