From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
To: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Mailing list hacked by spammer?
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:40:33 -0700
Message-ID: <4880D591.5080107@emolecules.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <602464.88031.qm@web25808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References: <602464.88031.qm@web25808.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Glyn Astill wrote:
> Most likely just a forged header or something, hardly hacked
> though is it.
Yes, hack is the correct term. The bad guys have hacked into the major email systems, including gmail, which was the origin of this spam:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/gmail_captcha_crack/> I think you need to do some training:
> http://www2.b3ta.com/bigquiz/hacker-or-spacker/
Sending a link to a web site that plays loud rap music is not a friendly way to make your point.
Craig
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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
>> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
>> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2008 4:02:37 PM
>> Subject: [PERFORM] Mailing list hacked by spammer?
>>
>> I've never gotten a single spam from the Postgres mailing list ... until today.
>> A Chinese company selling consumer products is using this list. I have my
>> filters set to automatically trust this list because it has been so reliable
>> until now. It would be really, really unfortunate if this list fell to the
>> spammers.
>>
>> Craig
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