[TriLUG] Regarding the SPAM "Fw: new message"

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

Tom,

No need to apologize and there was no inconvenience.  I have a habit of
investigating stuff that winds up in my SPAM folder as most of it is
caught and discarded well before getting to that point and it becomes a
matter of curiosity.  I usually report the messages that get here to
Spamcop but in this case they were already over 12 hours old before I
found them (they came in last night at 7:47pm).

In regards to aspect of a web crawler harvesting email addresses, it looks
like current ones show up as  a name with an email of "trilug at
trilug.org", while older archived messages have "user at domain", which
could be harvested but would require someone to deliberately script it
(fairly easy) to create the list.

> I think it’s me and (ironically) I suspect it’s from my Mint Linux VM
> running on my MacBook. I noticed last night that, as soon as I fired up
> the VM for the TriLUG meeting, an email went out under my name. I plan to
> kill the VM and build a new one - hopefully, that’ll fix it.
>
> I apologize for the inconvenience.
>
> Tom
>
>> On May 13, 2016, at 10:08 AM, Scott Miller via TriLUG
>> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>> It's most likely a mailing list user with a compromised computer which
>> has harvested email addresses, I would suspect.
>>
>>
>>
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