[Gllug] Spoofing?

[Tom Gilbert]

* Alex Hudson (home at alexhudson.com) wrote:
> On Saturday 13 October 2001 17:48, you wrote:
> > > I use this account only to talk to a few friends and the GLLUG list.
> > > I have just received four emails from people on the GLLUG membership
> > I don't believe this list restricts posting to non-members, or has any
> > other anti-spam measures.
> >
> > I suspect someone is just sending spam to the list, they aren't
> > "masquerading" at all.
> 
> Weird - I haven't got any from the list (unless I have some involuntary 
> eye-closing mechanism when spam appears - possible :). I don't have any 
> filtering in place either (as a rule, I don't get any anyway) - although, my 
> ISP probably does to an extent (ORBZ, I think). They also charge people for 
> sending UCE from their mail servers at a rate of £1000/recipient, IIRC.
> 
> The copy Stig sent to the list seemed to be addressed to gllug at list.ftech.net 
> rather than gllug at linux.co.uk though, perhaps that may be the reason. 
> Although, that was someone called "Paper Chain Technology" who seemed to be 
> very much UK, and not .cn or whatever it was.

Yeah I got that one - I assumed gllug at list.ftech.net and
gllug at linux.co.uk amounted to the same thing - but maybe not. Perhaps
one is the old list location with an old subscriber list? Or perhaps
that's someone else altogether :)

Tom.
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