From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
Cc: jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spam/LKML
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:03:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030923110358.751f76ef.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309231437.43542.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:37:43 -0400
joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> wrote:
> I am getting hammered with them, though I use a sendmail server. Is this a
> manifestation or exploit of the buffer-overflow security issue out with
> sendmail?
No.
Anyone in the world can receive linux-kernel postings, even if they
are not subscribed they can obtain such postings from various online
web archives.
Therefore someone harvesting emails for which to send spam can simply
take the sender address of linux-kernel postings.
This particular spam is happening to nearly everyone posting to just
about any list in the world the past few days, not just to here at
vger.kernel.org My wife, for example, does not making posting to the
lists at vger.kernel.org yet she is receiving the same spams everyone
else is.
So please stop these threads about this problem, what can been said
has been said and this issue is totally offtopic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-23 17:21 Spam/LKML Justin Piszcz
2003-09-23 18:24 ` Spam/LKML Markus Hästbacka
2003-09-23 22:17 ` Spam/LKML Robert White
2003-09-26 1:12 ` Spam/LKML Kurt Wall
2003-09-23 18:37 ` Spam/LKML joe briggs
2003-09-23 17:43 ` Spam/LKML Justin Piszcz
2003-09-23 18:08 ` Spam/LKML David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:20 ` Spam/LKML Andre Tomt
2003-09-23 18:03 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-23 18:16 ` Spam/LKML Andre Tomt
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