[Elecraft] Junk mail from elecraft...

Vic K2VCO vic at rakefet.com
Sun May 29 12:55:02 EDT 2011


All that has to happen is that a legitimate member of the list has his address book 
compromised. Then the spammer (not necessarily from the computer of the list member) sends 
spam to the entries in the address book, faking the 'from' address of the victim.

The mailman program that manages the Elecraft list sees a message from what appears to be 
a list member. Although it's possible to do content analysis, it's imperfect, sometimes 
deleting legitimate messages and sometimes letting spam through.

I've seen a few in the past week.

On 5/29/2011 6:08 AM, John wrote:
> I sent John details separately, but I can assure you the junk email
> messages I have received that look like they came from the QTH server
> did come from/through the QTH server.  I suspect many of you are not
> seeing the messages because your personal spam filters are working FB.
>
> Anyone interested in the evidence (header analysis and Postfix log
> entries) can contact me off list.  It's exceptionally dull reading.
>
> John
>
> On 5/29/11 2:06 AM, John Ragle wrote:
>> It looks to me like the elecraft at mailman.qth.net input filters have been
>> compromised -- I am getting junk mail spam from the sex trade via the
>> Elecraft server. I see that "QTH.COM" appears to be the underlying

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