[Elecraft] Spam on list

[Jon K Hellan]

On 10/05/2011 04:24 AM, Kevin Luxford wrote:
> Please enlighten me.  Is a strong password adequate defence against
> hacking of email lists?

There is no defense. At least not on your end. Anybody can use your 
address as the 'from:' address. This is fundamental to how internet 
email was designed back in 1982.

But where the spammers are actually using your address list, they 
probably broke into your computer (or your web mail, if that's where the 
address list is kept). Good security practices will certainly
help against this.

73
Jon LA4RT

> 73
> Kevin
> VK3DAP / ZL2DAP
>
> On 5/10/2011 1:20 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:
>> Someone, who is a member of the list, had his e-mail address hijacked.
>>
>> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>>
>>
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