[LMB] ADMIN: bl**dy spammers

Philip Johnson ptj at melesmeles.demon.co.uk
Sat Oct 7 20:01:33 BST 2006


Melanie Dymond Harper wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I had to do some cleaning up yesterday after some particularly
> enthusiastic spammers joe-jobbed one of our users (for those not
> familiar with the term, it's the practice of sending out spam appearing
> to come from your address or domain), and didn't spot that the resulting
> shortage of disk space had caused Mailman to pitch a hissy fit also.
> Thanks to Patrick V. for alerting me to the issue; you should get a
> bunch of stuff showing up in your mailboxes any moment.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mel
> 

I've been getting a lot of "mail undelivered" messages for spam I never 
sent. The sender typicall appears as "Fred Bloggs 
from<[garbage]@melesmelse.demon.co.uk>".

Is there anything I should/can do about it>

Phil tghe Badge
-- 
Never do for yourself what you can con an expert into doing for you.	 
Naismith: "On War"



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