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From: <pl...@pi...> - 2017-06-10 12:06:17
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Hi, for the last three weeks I have been getting massive amounts of SPAM from the address I use for this ML. I am going to have to shut down the account. This is presumably because sourceforge mailman service archives this as a public list exposing contact emails which have been trawled by spammers. Is there a way to prevent full addresses being exposed in that way? Are others having this problem? Peter. |
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From: Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...> - 2017-06-10 14:17:50
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:02:12 +0100 pl...@pi... wrote: > Hi, > > for the last three weeks I have been getting massive amounts of SPAM > from the address I use for this ML. I am going to have to shut down > the account. > > This is presumably because sourceforge mailman service archives this > as a public list exposing contact emails which have been trawled by > spammers. > > Is there a way to prevent full addresses being exposed in that way? > > Are others having this problem? No, I haven't (fortunately!). Sorry to hear. But the other day I got an email, apparently from Sourceforge, to confirm that I want to be subscribed to the two gnuplot email lists. I don't recall ever receiving such an email before, but it looked legit, and so I confirmed. Have others gotten similar emails? > > Peter. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > gnuplot-beta mailing list > gnu...@li... > Membership management via: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-beta |
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From: Mojca M. <moj...@gm...> - 2017-06-10 14:40:06
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On 10 June 2017 at 16:01, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:02:12 +0100 > pl...@pi... wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> for the last three weeks I have been getting massive amounts of SPAM >> from the address I use for this ML. I am going to have to shut down >> the account. >> >> This is presumably because sourceforge mailman service archives this >> as a public list exposing contact emails which have been trawled by >> spammers. >> >> Is there a way to prevent full addresses being exposed in that way? >> >> Are others having this problem? > > No, I haven't (fortunately!). Sorry to hear. I'm getting sufficient spam from all over the place (it ends in spambox anyway), so generally I wouldn't be able to tell where exactly the spam originates. (I would need a separate email address for each mailing list for that.) > But the other day I got an email, apparently from > Sourceforge, to confirm that I want to be subscribed > to the two gnuplot email lists. I don't recall ever > receiving such an email before, but it looked legit, > and so I confirmed. Have others gotten similar emails? Yes, I got that one as well. The list of mailing lists looks OK. So either they have so many spammers subscribed on various lists that they had to do this to get rid of spammers. Or some spammers got hold of their complete database and are now sending emails themselves :) I guess it's the first in this case, but it would be nice if they wrote this somewhere on the web page as it looks suspicious in any case. Usually such emails are phishing attacks, I don't remember getting a similar legitimate email like that one in the past. Mojca |
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From: <pl...@pi...> - 2017-06-10 19:29:04
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On 10/06/17 15:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 10 June 2017 at 16:01, Philipp K. Janert wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:02:12 +0100 >> pl...@pi... wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> for the last three weeks I have been getting massive amounts of SPAM >>> from the address I use for this ML. I am going to have to shut down >>> the account. >>> >>> This is presumably because sourceforge mailman service archives this >>> as a public list exposing contact emails which have been trawled by >>> spammers. >>> >>> Is there a way to prevent full addresses being exposed in that way? >>> >>> Are others having this problem? >> >> No, I haven't (fortunately!). Sorry to hear. > > I'm getting sufficient spam from all over the place (it ends in > spambox anyway), so generally I wouldn't be able to tell where exactly > the spam originates. (I would need a separate email address for each > mailing list for that.) Which is exactly what I do ;) That is how I know the recent flurry is coming from the contact I put on this ML. BTW they come in volleys of three identical emails each from different bogus addresses. I also got the renew subscription msg , which I also thought looked rather phishy, so I did not do anything about it. This prompted me to consider killing this address and subscribing with a new one, but chances are the same thing will happen. Thanks for comments. Peter. > >> But the other day I got an email, apparently from >> Sourceforge, to confirm that I want to be subscribed >> to the two gnuplot email lists. I don't recall ever >> receiving such an email before, but it looked legit, >> and so I confirmed. Have others gotten similar emails? > > Yes, I got that one as well. > > The list of mailing lists looks OK. So either they have so many > spammers subscribed on various lists that they had to do this to get > rid of spammers. Or some spammers got hold of their complete database > and are now sending emails themselves :) I guess it's the first in > this case, but it would be nice if they wrote this somewhere on the > web page as it looks suspicious in any case. Usually such emails are > phishing attacks, I don't remember getting a similar legitimate email > like that one in the past. > > Mojca > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > gnuplot-beta mailing list > gnu...@li... > Membership management via: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-beta > |
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From: Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...> - 2017-06-10 20:05:51
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Am 10.06.2017 um 19:54 schrieb pl...@pi...: >>> pl...@pi... wrote: >>>> for the last three weeks I have been getting massive amounts of SPAM >>>> from the address I use for this ML. Strange --- I didn't. But maybe my mail provider's spam filter is tougher than yours... And just out of curiosity: what do you consider "massive amounts"? >>>> This is presumably because sourceforge mailman service archives this >>>> as a public list exposing contact emails which have been trawled by >>>> spammers. Did you even look at the archives before making such an accusation? >>>> Is there a way to prevent full addresses being exposed in that way? Ultimately, no, there isn't. If an address harvester subscribes, they will get the address of each posted mail, pretty much by necessity. > I also got the renew subscription msg , which I also thought looked > rather phishy, so I did not do anything about it. The message is, to the best I can tell, genuine. Go directly to the project's Mailing List pages (not via any link from that mail, if you're worried), and see for yourself. |
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From: Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...> - 2017-06-10 20:18:10
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On 06/10/2017 12:54 PM, pl...@pi... wrote: > On 10/06/17 15:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On 10 June 2017 at 16:01, Philipp K. Janert wrote: >>> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:02:12 +0100 >>> pl...@pi... wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> for the last three weeks I have been getting massive amounts of SPAM >>>> from the address I use for this ML. I am going to have to shut down >>>> the account. >>>> >>>> This is presumably because sourceforge mailman service archives this >>>> as a public list exposing contact emails which have been trawled by >>>> spammers. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to prevent full addresses being exposed in that way? >>>> >>>> Are others having this problem? >>> >>> No, I haven't (fortunately!). Sorry to hear. >> >> I'm getting sufficient spam from all over the place (it ends in >> spambox anyway), so generally I wouldn't be able to tell where exactly >> the spam originates. (I would need a separate email address for each >> mailing list for that.) If it is actual spam, typically the original source isn't in the email. Somehow that info can be left out, even though there may be a short list of several places the email was routed. > Which is exactly what I do ;) > > That is how I know the recent flurry is coming from the contact I put on > this ML. > > BTW they come in volleys of three identical emails each from different > bogus addresses. These kind of things happen to me on occasion, but after a week or two they subside when the bot gets no activity. I.e., if you follow links (never do so with a suspect email), it's a confirmation of a valid address and the site might get other information like cookies and such. If I have a suspect email, I'll save it to a separate file (without viewing the email in an HTML device...which many email viewers are) then look at it with a generic ASCII editor. If the file is mostly binary data at the end or I don't recognize the sender/text, I discard it. For any email that requests logging into some type of account, I don't follow any direct links from the email. Instead, I go to the site in my browser by typing the address I know for that site. That avoids going to some kind of mimic page. Dan |
