Re: spamming of ML addresses

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

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