[LMB] ADMIN: bl**dy spammers

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: Melanie Dymond Harper <mel at herald.co.uk>
> Date: 07 October 2006 09:11
> 
> 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 Mel !

In the interests of trying to keep terminology straight, this is just
spammers forging the 'From:' and (badly set up) servers thus sending
delayed delivery failure notices  to that address, not a "Joe Job".

"Joe Job"s actually try and convice the public that the forgee sent a spam
run, eg by including an advertisment of the victim's web site.

Little Egret