Pharmacy spam on Aroid-L

From: samarak at gizmoworks.com (Steve Marak) on 2008.03.09 at 17:28:03(17136) Well, that answers a question I had, which was did anyone else see this post? I was extremely surprised, about 1:10 am local time last Friday morning, to see in my inbox what appeared to be a post from Aroid-L. I was surprised both because I had not approved any posts at that time (and no posts should go out without approval), and also because it was clearly spam, and also because I didn't even see it in the queue awaiting approval. I immediately fired off a note to another local member of the list who is a night owl, asking if he'd seen the note, while I dug through the e-mail headers. The other member didn't see the spam post. That left me wondering who had seen it, but I hated to ask and generate a lot of traffic if it turned it the answer was only me. In the meantime, of course, I've been digging through both the spam e-mail and the listserver settings and options, trying to figure out how this got through. I have a theory, which would mean a lot of lists besides Aroid-L were vulnerable and that it was beyond our control, but I haven't tested it yet. (It requires some setup. You will probably see us try it later this week.) In the meantime, I apologize for the intrusion on our otherwise peaceful list. Steve +More On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Helmut Reisenberger wrote: > Hi! > > The following message I found in my mailbox!!! Is there anybody misusing > the forum, which I always have understood as a perfect source of > information about aroids and aroiders. Pls. find attatched the strange > email. > > Helmut > > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: > > Gesendet: 07.03.08 08:11:11 > > An: > > Betreff: [Aroid-l] Pharmacy Online March 70% OFF > > -- Steve Marak -- samarak at gizmoworks.com

From: harrywitmore at witmore.net (Harry Witmore) on 2008.03.09 at 18:19:24(17139) Steve, I saw it but can?t tell you when. I just assumed it slipped by you. Harry Witmore +More Cloud Jungle Epiphytes www.cloudjungle.com -----Original Message----- From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Steve Marak Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:28 PM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] FW: Pharmacy spam on Aroid-L Well, that answers a question I had, which was did anyone else see this post? I was extremely surprised, about 1:10 am local time last Friday morning, to see in my inbox what appeared to be a post from Aroid-L. I was surprised both because I had not approved any posts at that time (and no posts should go out without approval), and also because it was clearly spam, and also because I didn't even see it in the queue awaiting approval. I immediately fired off a note to another local member of the list who is a night owl, asking if he'd seen the note, while I dug through the e-mail headers. The other member didn't see the spam post. That left me wondering who had seen it, but I hated to ask and generate a lot of traffic if it turned it the answer was only me. In the meantime, of course, I've been digging through both the spam e-mail and the listserver settings and options, trying to figure out how this got through. I have a theory, which would mean a lot of lists besides Aroid-L were vulnerable and that it was beyond our control, but I haven't tested it yet. (It requires some setup. You will probably see us try it later this week.) In the meantime, I apologize for the intrusion on our otherwise peaceful list. Steve On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Helmut Reisenberger wrote: > Hi! > > The following message I found in my mailbox!!! Is there anybody > misusing the forum, which I always have understood as a perfect source > of information about aroids and aroiders. Pls. find attatched the > strange email. > > Helmut > > > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: > > Gesendet: 07.03.08 08:11:11 > > An: > > Betreff: [Aroid-l] Pharmacy Online March 70% OFF > > -- Steve Marak -- samarak at gizmoworks.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1319 - Release Date: 3/8/2008 10:14 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.518 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1319 - Release Date: 3/8/2008 10:14 AM

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