My appologies for non-GRASS/GIS the post, but I felt it was warranted.
Recently, at least two recent posters to GRASS-L have received
unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) for an adult site. These spam are
particularly noticeable because they appear to be originating from
another poster on GRASS-L.
We were able to ascertain that the emails were originating from a dial
up account in Australia, and the perp was using a server within the
compuserve.com domain. I have already tried to contact their admin
personnel on this issue, and have received an automated response:
Your message has been received by the CompuServe Postmaster
Team. CompuServe is interested in your comments and
questions. We are making a concerted effort to address each
issue; however, due to the high volume of mail received at
this address, we are unable to reply to each message
individually.
Sincerely,
The Postmaster Team
CompuServe, Inc.
I will continue to monitor this situation, and I ask any other members
of this list to contact me if they have received any spam involving the
http://SEX.Interactwithme.com web site, especially after today.
Thanks,
Pete
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Pete St. Onge
pete@seul.org
Hi all it seems as if everybody in the list has
been covered by the spammer. Here is an excerpt
from the heder of the mail I received yesterday:
Received: from spdmraaa.compuserve.com
(ds-img-rel-1.compuserve.com [149.174.206.140]) by
Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by spdmraaa.compuserve.com
(8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.0) id IAA15767 for
Content-Type: text/plain
Sender: lehmann@fh-nuertingen.de
Received: from ggg (mel-0602-067.ports.iprimus.com.au [202.138.36.67])
by spdmraaa.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.0) with SMTP id IAA15720 for ; Wed, 3
Nov 1999 08:41:17 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:41:17 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <199911031341.IAA15720@spdmraaa.compuserve.com>
To: lpalmeri@ux1.unipd.it
Reply-To: lehmann@fh-nuertingen.de
Subject: hey wassup LpALMErI 
X-UIDL: 5cb143666d298db99374aeb169c4f2c7
X-Mozilla-Status: 8001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
"Pete St. Onge" wrote:
My appologies for non-GRASS/GIS the post, but I felt it was warranted.
Recently, at least two recent posters to GRASS-L have received
unsolicited commercial email (SPAM) for an adult site. These spam are
particularly noticeable because they appear to be originating from
another poster on GRASS-L.
We were able to ascertain that the emails were originating from a dial
up account in Australia, and the perp was using a server within the
compuserve.com domain. I have already tried to contact their admin
personnel on this issue, and have received an automated response:
Your message has been received by the CompuServe Postmaster
Team. CompuServe is interested in your comments and
questions. We are making a concerted effort to address each
issue; however, due to the high volume of mail received at
this address, we are unable to reply to each message
individually.
Sincerely,
The Postmaster Team
CompuServe, Inc.
I will continue to monitor this situation, and I ask any other members
of this list to contact me if they have received any spam involving the
http://SEX.Interactwithme.com web site, especially after today.
Thanks,
Pete
--
Pete St. Onge
pete@seul.org
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On Nov 4, 8:22am, Bernhard Sturm (Privat) wrote:
In what way are those lists protected?
Not at all! Simply sending the WHO command to majordomo will return a list of
all subscribers. This is useful at times for analyzing list membership but as
we saw, someone with the right knowledge can use the addresses for spamming and
faking authors of e-mail.
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Sincerely,
Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey) e-mail: jhickey@hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
People who think they know everything are very irritating to those
of us who do. ---Anonymous
Jazz and Trek Rule!!!