From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200006172343.AAA17361@cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> Subject: [9fans] spammers using 9fans? In-Reply-To: <20000617125415.A6749@cyber-dyne.com> from Randolph Fritz at "Jun 17, 2000 12:54:16 pm" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:43:25 +0100 From: Digby Tarvin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: c315a218-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Anyone else get some spam with subject "Welcome New Member!" recently? I got two copies (relayed through different hosts), one with the mail headers below which seems to reveal the source of the name harvesting as this list ... I am guessing it is a result of mailing list being gatewayed to the news group, but if anyone who hasn't posted messages has received it, it would indicate the mailing list itself was compromised. From postmaster Sat Jun 17 23:48:47 2000 Received: (from root@localhost) by cthulhu.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA17031 for digbyt (9fans@cse.psu.edu); Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:48:46 +0100 (GMT/BST) ---------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ X-Envelope-To: Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by popmail.dircon.co.uk with ESMTP id XAA00224 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:11:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (amukhopa@harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13158; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:10:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from amukhopa@localhost) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA28506; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:08:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:08:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200006172208.RAA28506@harper.uchicago.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: harper.uchicago.edu: amukhopa set sender to user using -f From: ptsconnection@netscape.net Subject: Welcome New Member! ..... -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@acm.org http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk