[governance] bot spam, was new methods

[John Levine]

>Are you quite sure that this is spam and not a phishing trip of some sort?

It's quite possibly both, but it's almost certainly blasted out in large
volume without much regard for who it's sent to.

R's,
John

>>Given the recurring problem, I suggest Garth cancels the current 
>>email's subscription and subscribe with a new email account. It seems 
>>telus.net is compromised and admins are not doing much to mitigate this.
>
>It is very unlikely that Telus is compromised.  They're one of the largest telephone and broadband providers in Canada.
>
>It is much more likely that someone else's address book got stolen, which contained Garth's address, and the addresses are now being forged
>into spam sent from botnets in random places all over the world.
>
>Mailing lists need to spam filter incoming mail, and if they don't, there's not much to do other than reminding the list manager that they
>need to do so.  I agree that telling people, hey, you might just have gotten spam is not helpful.


-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t