Hijacked email address.

[mark]

Tom Curl wrote:
> 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$$.
> 
Esp. when the blacklist "services" block an entire range of addresses. For
example, cogeco, out of Canada, was using... I think it was spamhaus. Via them,
cogeco blocked *all* of central Floria RoadRunner (Time-Warner, hundreds and
hundreds of thousands of folks near Orlando....)

	mark
> 
> 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
>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>> ERC Broadband
>> (828) 350-2415
>>
>> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
>>
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