[Tracker-discuss] [issue105] Dealing with spam

[Peter Funk]

Peter Funk <pf at artcom-gmbh.de> added the comment:

Hallo Martin,

Martin v. Löwis schrieb am Donnerstag, den 18.09.2008 um 08:49:
> Please don't reopen issues; this issue is unrelated (IMO) to this specific spam,
> and the issue has long been dealt with.

Okay.  So probably I should have created a new one?

> I don't think it is possible to fetch the user list from the tracker, so I doubt
> that this is precisely what happened.

Hmmm...  I've they have registered like I did, they would have been
able to fetch it.  Do you have any other idea, how this could have happened?

> I can't think of a real solution (other than using PGP for email, which would be
> fairly difficult to implement). If you want to prevent your account from being
> abused, either change the email address, or remove it entirely.

Today I already my very old E-Mail alias pf at artcom0.north.de which was
"burned", because I used on USENET long ago. 

> If we get significant amounts of spam, spambayes will eventually learn how to
> classify it. In the meantime, what it might learn is that spam is often
> associated with your account,and classify regular messages from you as spam also.

I don't like that. :-(

> Message 1100 has messageid 48D15A44.9010908 at psf.upfronthosting.co.za, which
> indicates that the messageid was assigned by postfix (messages created through
> the web have msgids of the form
> 1221722751.32.0.895127034767.issue105 at psf.upfronthosting.co.za). FWIW, according
> to the postfix log, the message came in from bor221.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl. This
> system (or from that provider), a lot of spam attempts have been received, many
> of which apparently got rejected either because of invalid to addresses, or
> invalid from addresses.

Do you believe it is random incidence they picked my account for some
reason?  I was not very active lately.

Regards, Peter
-- 
Peter Funk, Oldenburger Str.86, D-27777 Ganderkesee, Germany; office: 
ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str. 5, D-28359 Bremen, Germany, tel: +49-421-20419-0
<http://www.artcom-gmbh.de/>

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