[AMRadio] SPAM/Bounces

Mon Oct 18 14:05:59 EDT 2010

Brian is dead on the money. I can't begin to count the number of these
we've seen over the last few months. Some of you have seen them come
through this as well as other lists when a spammer hijacks a member's
email account to send surreptitious spam. I noticed a bunch in there
from embarqmail as well. The last notification had 7 or 8 in it. This
is what is triggering the blocking of accounts.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:46 PM, W5AMI <ars.w5ami at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fact is, YOU won't since you are using Yahoo.  Yahoo and AOL are not paying
> attention.  It's not just this list, but many, if not all those on
> qth.comthat are being effected.
>
> The problem is that those in the group, who are not using Yahoo or AOL,
> their ISP's are beginning to block the spam messages from this group as
> SPAM, and the AMRadio list server will eventually turn their account off due
> to excessive bounces, and those bounces are due to SPAM.
>
> Jim/jo, please chime in here if you will.
>
> I am not making this up folks.  I've run this list for many years and I am
> seeing accounts disabled left and right over the last day or so over this.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Mack Rogers <n4vgb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I've never received any spam that I recognized as coming from a legitimate
>> regular user of this email reflector?
>>
>> I've used yahoo mail for years with no problems.
>>
>> SPAM that seems to originate from a legitimate user may be linked to those
>> who use facebook also? In the signup process for facebook you are allowing
>> facebook to access your email lists and download all the info contained
>> there. Every time someone I know starts a facebook page I receive an email
>> announcement of their new facebook page that appears to originate from them
>> personally but is actually generated and sent from the facebook website. My
>> wife has a facebook page and has suffered the embarrassment of having her
>> regular email contacts receive spam that appears to originate from her.
>> Facebook has used the lame excuse twice now that someone has hacked her
>> account and she has changed her password twice. The excuse is BS, the spam
>> originates from facebook itself.
>>
>> N4VGB
>> Mack Rogers
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 10/18/10, W5AMI <ars.w5ami at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: W5AMI <ars.w5ami at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: [AMRadio] SPAM/Bounces
>> > To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <
>> amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>> > Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 12:17 PM
>> > Those of you that are using Yahoo,
>> > AOL, and some others, need to complain to
>> > your provider that hackers are using your email accounts to
>> > send SPAM
>> > "through" your address, and it is affecting this email list
>> > in a bad way.  I
>> > have no control of this matter now other than suspending
>> > all those who are
>> > using those providers.  I know it's not your fault,
>> > however this has been
>> > going far too long, and those like Yahoo, and AOL don't
>> > seem to be in any
>> > hurry to block these people from using YOUR account.
>> >
>> > I can not allow this list to be destroyed after 13 years or
>> > more due to this
>> > issue.  Complain to them!  If not, unsubscribe
>> > and get another email
>> > provider like Gmail or something and resubscribe with your
>> > new email
>> > account.  I'm sorry about this, but it's beyond my
>> > control.
>> >
>> > Brian / w5ami
>> >
>> >
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>> > and how few by
>> > deceit".
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