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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:20:14 +0200
From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
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CC: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
       joe briggs <jbriggs@briggsmedia.com>
Subject: Re: Spam/LKML
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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,
Andr? Tomt
andre@tomt.net

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