I think the people who got all the span made the "msitake" of replying
to a phony email sent to all the list. The phony email requested
reciepients to verify soe list information...Mel
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Juhas <james.f.juhas@snet.net>
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2007 3:26 pm
Subject: Re: [Mgs] The jerk is spamming the list
To: "Councill, David" <dcouncill@msubillings.edu>
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> I get so much spam now that maybe I'm missing this. What is it?
> Perhaps my filters are nailing him?
>
> Councill, David wrote:
>
> >Earlier I reported that I had received three of these but they
> did not
> >come from the list, at least directly. I stand by that. A check
> of the
> >archives indicates that he only sent one email directly to the
> list, the
> >MG-TC one. The headers on the other two indicated they were sent
> direct>to me and NOT through the list. However, in checking the
> archives, I
> >noticed that subscribers to the list can easily obtain a list of
> all the
> >email addresses of the list (306 at present) and that appears to
> be what
> >he has done. So cutting him off the server and our list will have no
> >affect at this point but Mark may have to take out the option of
> >subscriber's access to a listing of everyone's email (granted
> they are
> >in the format of "username at domain", a simple edit/replace
> program can
> >restore the emails to the correct format).
> >
> >I haven't seen anymore of his email since this morning (4 hours
> or so
> >ago) but that doesn't mean anything.
> >
> >David Councill
> >67 BGT
> >72 B
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