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

[C TC via TriLUG]

And that horse loves to eat spam. :)
Nice answers here.

On Fri, May 13, 2016, 11:25 AM William Sutton via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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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