On Thu, May 27, 2004, Brian Quinlan wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >>Crap. We're probably seeing the leading edge of a spam technique we've >>long suspected could happen. I'll be signing my posts from now on.... > > Actually, someone impersonating you has been sending stuff to my > personal address for a couple of weeks now. I'm actually interested in > the technique: do they harvest all the names on the list and then > randomly forge e-mails from one user to another? These days, there's an unholy alliance between virus writers and spammers. Once a virus latches onto the address book of someone who knows you, welcome to spam city. I first noticed this as a particularly horrific problem last August -- for a while, I was getting as many as a hundred spams/viruses/bounces per *hour*, all through webmaster at python.org -- Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "He's Quebecois. He puts mayonnaise on *everything*." --siobhan at virulent.org
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