[Tfug] tfug SPAM'ed

Choprboy tfug@tfug.org
Thu Mar 27 10:01:01 2003


On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:39 am, Leo Przybylski wrote:
> Boy, I just beat this subject to death, don't I?
>
> Anyway, I just found some SPAM that I was filtering from the address
> dagogo10ng@themail.com
>
> I noticed that that "tfug" was consistently used in the header
> information. I also found addresses from people in this list too.
>
> I wonder if anyone receieved email like this. I know a lot of people
> filter their mail too, so I was also wondering if anyone found this in
> their "filtered" mail.
>
> It looks like maybe someone got the addresses from the mailing list.
>

Yes, I've had several spams at my address due to the TFUG list. There are now 
several web archives of TFUG about which do not hide the sender/recipient 
addresses. The spammer's spiders have been crawling those.

Adrian