Re: Fwd: OT: man in the middle attack ?
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 14:13 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Lisi wrote:
> > lina wrote:
> > > Chris wrote:
> > > > Anyone else getting this?
> > > I got one before.
> > > > From: "debian-user" <joe1assistly@gmail.com>
> >
> > Oh dear! Now someone else has quoted it.
>
> This isn't spam to the mailing list. This is spam from a subscriber
> to the original posters. So it doesn't matter if you quote it or
> not. It won't affect the mailing list spam filters. Although it may
> affect individual's spam filters. However anyone wanting to block the
> joe1assistly bad robot messages can do so more accurately using the
> message-id headers.
>
> Normal mailing list mail goes like this:
>
> sender -> mailing list -> many recipients, including newsgroups
>
> The joe1assistly bad robot is one of the recipients. It then does
> this:
>
> sender -> mailing list -> many recipients, including newsgroups
> joe1assistly -> sender
>
> Mail from joe1assistly never hits the mailing list. There isn't
> anything the mailing list can do to block the return spam. The only
> thing that can be done is to find the recipient and unsubscribe them.
> However there was discussion on one of the Cygwin lists that perhaps
> due to the difficulty in locating a subscriber that perhaps
> joe1assistly was scraping the messages from a newsgroup and was
> therefore not subscribed. In which case it would be more difficult to
> defeat.
>
> The joe1assistly bad robot has been coming and going for some months
> now not just from the debian-user mailing list but also from some
> others such as the Cygwin lists too.
>
> Bob
Thank you for the explanation Bob.
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