[Qgis-user] Spam

[Brian J. Torreano]

Darn bots and compromised PCs!  Aaarrgghhh!

Brian

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Bowden" <tim.bowden at mapforge.com.au>
To: "Werner Macho" <werner.macho at gmail.com>
Cc: "Brian J. Torreano" <qgis at btdarters.com>; <Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Spam


> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 08:24 +0200, Werner Macho wrote:
>> No Spam here on the list AFAIK
>> Probably you get the spam by accident? Some spammer would have guessed
>> your email address?
>> I dont know - but I didn't get SPAM here for a very long time ..
>> (but maybe I overlooked something)
>>
>> is the [Qgis-user] included in the subject? If not the SPAM you got is
>> definitely not from the list ..
>>
>> regards
>> Werner
>>
>> > The spam I've gotten is stuff for male enhancement pills and the
>> > like.  The emails don't say that they specifically came from the
>> > list.  It's just that I don't have this email posted anywhere on the
>> > web, and I haven't used it but to email people on the Qgis list.  So I
>> > can't figure any other place it could have come from.
>> >
>
> Couple of possibilities:
>
> * Someone subscribed to this list has a compromised PC (actually,
> there's probably quite a few that fit this description ;-) and has email
> addresses being harvested from their address book/inbox
>
> * There is a bot subscribed to the list that is harvesting addresses
> (also quite possible).
>
> Solution: Get a mail client that can do better filtering.
>
> HTH,
> Tim Bowden
>