Hijacked email address.

[Tom Curl]

The worst part is when your email server gets blocked by ISPs as a
spammer.  Even though your machine is not compromised the volume of mail
with your return email address kicks off some spam detectors.  I had
this happen, pain in the a$$.


On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:00 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Jose R R wrote:
> > Good morning (California), RH list members-
> 
> > 
> > Below is an fragment of one that even attempted to join an google group:
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
> Alan is right, there is NO way to prevent this.  I would however double 
> check to make sure your mail server isn't compromised (which it probably 
> isn't, but a good double-check never hurts.
> 
> Also, there's a well known issue with Google owned domains (like 
> googlegroups) that are very susceptible to backscatter spam attacks to 
> find legit email addresses in those domains.
> 
> Unfortunately, the d*ckhead spammers won't leave us alone.  If everyone 
> on the planet would stop clicking on them, maybe a good portion of them 
> would go away.
> 
> *puts away soapbox*
> 
> 
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> 
> Mark Haney
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