Re: Hijacked email address.

The worst part is when your email server gets blocked by ISPs as a
spammer. Even though your machine is not compromised the volume of mail
with your return email address kicks off some spam detectors. I had
this happen, pain in the a$$.


On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:00 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
Jose R R wrote:
Good morning (California), RH list members-


Below is an fragment of one that even attempted to join an google group:

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Alan is right, there is NO way to prevent this. I would however double
check to make sure your mail server isn't compromised (which it probably
isn't, but a good double-check never hurts.

Also, there's a well known issue with Google owned domains (like
googlegroups) that are very susceptible to backscatter spam attacks to
find legit email addresses in those domains.

Unfortunately, the d*ckhead spammers won't leave us alone. If everyone
on the planet would stop clicking on them, maybe a good portion of them
would go away.

*puts away soapbox*


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