From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnt Karlsen Subject: Re: Hoax.. Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:10:33 +0200 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20030423201033.3e567f63.arnt@c2i.net> References: <20030423021401.26417.52880.Mailman@kashyyyk> <20030423182602.24b0d726.arnt@c2i.net> <1051117353.25368.12.camel@alpha.newkirk.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1051117353.25368.12.camel@alpha.newkirk.us> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joel Newkirk Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On 23 Apr 2003 13:02:33 -0400, Joel Newkirk wrote in message <1051117353.25368.12.camel@alpha.newkirk.us>: > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:26, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:07:28 -0400, > > "Kevin Smith" wrote in message > > : > > > > > > > > >>UNION TOGOLAISE DE BANQUE LOME TOGO, > > > >>LOME-TOGO. > > > >>STRICTLY AND CONFIDENTIAL, > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > The Hint this this is a hoax..(I mean to a mailing list?) > > > > ..this went to and __thru__ the netfilter list ????????? > > I thought is was only my ~/.procmailrc having a hickup. > > Someone harvested the archives of this mailinglist for email > addresses, and is sending various forms of these "Nigerian 419 scam" ..the Africans should make the Nigerians ban this idiocy, it hurts everybodys business, I mean filtering on "business" and all African country names, as most people end up doing, will deny _all_ African businesses, _any_ fair business online, because of this Nigerian "419" criminal idiocy and vice versa. ..face it, with Nigerian "419", who needs racism? ;-) > emails. I use netfilter@newkirk.us for ONLY this mailinglist and > associated conversations, and I get about one of these every 2-3 weeks > now at that address. > > They're mailing direct to the email addresses found in the archive. ..ah. Gentlemen, mod your ~/.procmailrc to only accept posts from netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org. Next step would be GPG signatures and autoforward anything that fails, to the Law. > I forward them to the Secret Service, who collect these in the US. ..automagically? ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.