Re: Spam/LKML

[Andre Tomt]

Justin Piszcz wrote:

> I use qmail here.
>
> It appears to be a manifestation at least at the surface, 90%+ are
> 140-160KB emails w/microsoft stuff only, I have not noticed any weird
> things in the qmail logs recently.
>
> One has to wonder though why such intense targetting happens, 10-15
> e-mails to my address only two hours after I sent an e-mail to LKML.
>
> The previous day, I only had received about 3-4 of them.
>
> It would seem like it would be a lot of work for people to constantly hit
> archives of LKML to get e-mail addresses to spam, I wonder if there are
> malicious people on the list scurrying e-mail addresses for spam targets.

One obvious answer is Microsoft Windows users infected with 
Swen/Gibe-F/Automat.AHB subscribed to this list. It's just one of those 
mail worms, same old all over again.

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Mvh,
André Tomt
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