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

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

and on the subject of obfuscating email addresses, the NoVALUG mailing 
list administrator (Rich Kulawiec) has stated that he doesn't obfuscate 
email addresses for a number of reasons, including (1) the likelihood of 
addresses being harvested anyway through other sources (like companies you 
do business with or people you associate with) and (2) the futility of 
obfuscating something that can't be scripted back together.

Besides which, all of the email addresses on the list that are currently 
out of the bag have probably been harvested many times.  Obfuscating them 
now is the euqivalent of closing the barn door after the horse has left 
the barn.

William Sutton

On Fri, 13 May 2016, Matt Flyer via TriLUG wrote:

> 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 itâ??s me and (ironically) I suspect itâ??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, thatâ??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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