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

[jim]

     I had no intention of implying that
your server was in anyway compromised.
I have no idea why, for a few weeks, I
was seeing emails that struck me as
suspicious.
     I haven't seen such for several
weeks now, and I'm no longer raising
warnings.
     I'm not sure I would categorize the
emails I saw as spam, mainly because I
don't feel that I have a sufficiently
rigorous understanding of what spam
really means.




On 08/08/2016 09:17 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----
>
> 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.
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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