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

[Scott Lambdin via TriLUG]

The barn keeps getting new colts, though.  Think about the colts.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 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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