RECENT SPAMS TO POSTERS ON GRASS-L

[Luca Palmeri]

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 at localhost) by spdmraaa.compuserve.com
>                      (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-REL-1.0) id IAA15767 for
>        Content-Type: text/plain
>              Sender: lehmann at 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 at spdmraaa.compuserve.com>
>                  To: lpalmeri at ux1.unipd.it
>            Reply-To:  lehmann at 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 at seul.org

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