[LUGSB] Is there an admin in the house?

[Nicholas Lopez]

On Jan 8, 2008 4:26 PM, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:43:12AM -0500, William Lahti wrote:
> > Spam is suddenly pouring into the list. What happened?
>
> Not sure. Nick did you make any changes to mailman?
>
> Gah! It looks like the list got hit by a spammer who had the From address be
> that one of the subscribers. There's no reasonable way around this - I
> haven't even noticed the spam because my spam filer caught it all.

Nope, I haven't changed any Mailman settings. I am going to see if our
members list is exposed to non-subscribers anywhere. The spam emails
(which I, too, didn't see thanks to Gmail's spam filter) originate
from several different IP addresses and forge several different
subscribers names and email addresses.

ngl