RE: [Python-Dev] Re: Hello
At 11:27 27.05.2004 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
[Barry]
Crap. We're probably seeing the leading edge of a spam technique we've long suspected could happen. I'll be signing my posts from now on....
I mentioned this morning that I've been getting a lot of this stuff directly (visibly addressed only to me), claiming to come from people on python-dev (past and present, from Vladimir Marangozov to Guido -- and even some claiming to come from me!). None have been spam so far, they've all been lame Windows viruses, mostly hiding in .cpl files (Windows Control Panel Extension).
I traced one claiming to come from you to an ISP in Kenya. At least that was creative!
well one no fun part is that you can get failure delivery messages from the ultimate destination (either because of an invalid address, or some antivirus/spam software that believes that the From is the relevant source) to the forged from.
[Samuele Pedroni]
well one no fun part is that you can get failure delivery messages from the ultimate destination (either because of an invalid address, or some antivirus/spam software that believes that the From is the relevant source) to the forged from.
Oh yes. In fact, by far the biggest chunk of my junk email now is bounces from email forged to appear to have come from a python.org alias I'm on (webmaster@python.org and help@python.org are especially popular forgeries). Luckily, my spambayes classifier weeds almost all of those out. However, because there's such variety in bounce messages, they account for almost all of my Unsures.
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