[sf-lug] (forw) Re: MEGA Invitation

[Rick Moen]

Jim, please address my request for information about some unspecified
persons 'getting spam from various names @linuxmafia.com'.  My guess is
you are speaking of either forgeries, or mail to you at the listadmin
address, or both.

But you cannot just accuse my Internet server of being a spamhaus and
then just walk away.  Seriously.


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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:12:45 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: [sf-lug] MEGA Invitation
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Quoting Jim Stockford (jim at well.com):

[...]

>     Lately we've been getting spam from various names @linuxmafia.com.

I'm sorry, but who is 'we'?  And _what_ spam?  And have you looked at the
headers to make sure it _actually_ arrived from linuxmafia.com, i.e.,
from IP address 198.144.195.186, as opposed to having forged headers?

Please send me copies with full headers, without delay.  (Please do not
send copies with truncated headers, as commonly displayed by e-mail
programs to users, as that is useless for investigation.)

If you believe yourself (or 'we') to have been 'getting spam from
various names @linuxmafia.com', why is this the first time you've
mentioned this?  This should be immediately brought to the host owner's
attention immediately, if you are serious and not just talking about
forgeries.

In my experience, many such claims are made by people who do not look at
headers, do not understand how to interpret them, and cannot distinguish
forged from non-forged mail.

Also, I will note in passing that you as listadmin receive large numbers
of held-mail advisories from Mailman, and this includes a large number
of spams that make it past the MTA and lodge in the Mailman admin queue:
This is normal and does not mean you are 'getting spam from 
linuxmafia.com', if that's what you're thinking of.  That is an inherent
part of what you signed up for when you asked me to host
sf-lug at linuxmafia.com and agreed to handle listadmin duty.  It comes
with the job.

[...]

Anyhow, if you're serious abount 'getting spam from various names
@linuxmafia.com', please forward offlist some examples with full SMTP
headers _now_.  Thank you.


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