From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
Subject: Re: Spam/LKML
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:20:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F708EDE.4060903@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0309231340310.10905@p500>
Justin Piszcz wrote:
> I use qmail here.
>
> It appears to be a manifestation at least at the surface, 90%+ are
> 140-160KB emails w/microsoft stuff only, I have not noticed any weird
> things in the qmail logs recently.
>
> One has to wonder though why such intense targetting happens, 10-15
> e-mails to my address only two hours after I sent an e-mail to LKML.
>
> The previous day, I only had received about 3-4 of them.
>
> It would seem like it would be a lot of work for people to constantly hit
> archives of LKML to get e-mail addresses to spam, I wonder if there are
> malicious people on the list scurrying e-mail addresses for spam targets.
One obvious answer is Microsoft Windows users infected with
Swen/Gibe-F/Automat.AHB subscribed to this list. It's just one of those
mail worms, same old all over again.
--
Mvh,
André Tomt
andre@tomt.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 18:20 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 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
2003-09-23 18:03 ` Spam/LKML David S. Miller
2003-09-23 18:16 ` Spam/LKML Andre Tomt
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