Official python list admins beware: Fwd: pymug at python.org post from j.seal at swohio.twcbc.com requires approval

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 13 May 2019 11:06:17 am Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:

> Confirmation mails require only some words to be replied but that one
> asks for passwords in plain text. Wonder if you guys also got it!
>
> Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
> http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ
> Mauritius
>
That I would call phishing, and if I got it, it was fed to sa-learn and 
copied to a 1 day holding, then cleaned out on the next sa-learn run.

But I don't recall seeing this one below go by. And I go have some real 
hoodoozies in the spam folder already today...

Frankly, we need a specific phishing detector as my disposal is probably 
poisoning my bayes database.  Or is there such a critter I don't know 
about?

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: <pymug-owner at python.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2019, 18:51
> Subject: pymug at python.org post from j.seal at swohio.twcbc.com requires
> approval
> To: <pymug-owner at python.org>
>
>
> As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the
> following mailing list posting:
>
>     List:    pymug at python.org
>     From:    j.seal at swohio.twcbc.com
>     Subject: Webmail Update  ::
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> The message is being held because:
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>     The message is not from a list member
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> At your convenience, visit
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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