[Gllug] Spam

[Benedikt Heinen]

> hmmm...where did "it" get my (and your) email address?  The only "public" 
> places of this email has been is a couple of mailing lists and this is the 
> only one that has had a positive response (from other readers) - though 
> both(?) [the other one definitely] lists have been the targets of spam.  I 
> only got this email address in July.
>
> Is there a "leak" on this list?

I use an individual address for every single mailing list I subscribe to, 
like the gllug at ml.ice... above - and I did receive a single spam on that 
address so far - or - well, something not mailing list related - but not 
your regular run-of-the-mill spam either:

 	From beh at ush...  Thu Aug 04 00:46:39 2005
 	Return-Path: <nitaigouranga at aol.com>
 	X-Original-To: gllug at ml.ice...
 	Delivered-To: beh at ush...
 	Received: from du213-130-142-92.as15444.net (unknown [213.130.142.92])
 	        by ush... (Postfix) with SMTP id 46E3072001D
 	        for <gllug at ml.icemark.net>; Thu,  4 Aug 2005 00:46:37 +0100 (BST)
 	From: "Neateye" <nitaigouranga at aol.com>
 	To: "Gllug" <gllug at ml.ice...>
 	Subject: Gouranga
 	Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:46:27 +0100
 	Reply-To: "Neateye" <nitaigouranga at aol.com>
 	Message-ID: <17842866.20050804004627 at aol.com>
 	MIME-Version: 1.0
 	X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
 	Importance: Normal
 	X-Mailer: EM: 4.51.0.770
 	Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 	Status: RO
 	Content-Length: 105
 	X-UID: 1503
 	X-Keywords:


 	Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
 	Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ....
 	That which brings the highest happiness!!


Apart from that one email (and yes - that is the full text of it - no 
attachments, nothing; and it was, as seen from the headers sent directly 
through me, not through gllug's mailing list processor), I haven't 
received any spams to my list address here...

In all, that isn't bad, considering that I've been on this mailing list 
for 11 months now, with my first post being shortly after I joined. There 
are definitely worse lists, (like, say, the ant-user mailing list, where I 
received my first spam directly delivered to my mailbox within 2 days of 
my first post to the list... ...and a fairly constant stream of spam 
following - which is now used to train bogofilter and spamassassin... ;-) 
)


Benedikt

   ALLIANCE, n.  In international politics, the union of two thieves who
     have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that
     they cannot separately plunder a third.
 			(Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)
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