Re: Uptick in spam?

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2011, at 17:21, Dan Bornstein wrote:
>> I've noticed a huge uptick recently in the amount of spam I receive
>> that purports to be from this mailing list. I *think* the mail is in
>> fact being delivered through the list but am not sure. Is anyone else
>> seeing this?
>
> According to my mail trash, I have not seen any spam from e-lang for
> the last month. However, my mail delivery has two layers of opaque-to-
> me spam-filtering service (most visibly graylisting, but that's not
> relevant to this case).
>
> Does your spam have the [e-lang] subject prefix

Yes.

> and does it pass
> through www.eros-os.com immediately before your mail host according to
> the Received headers?

Yes. See below for an example set of Received headers.

-dan

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        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id mv26si11758678ibb.54.2011.04.09.14.18.42;
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	id 1BBED1A3C39; Sat,  9 Apr 2011 14:18:42 -0700 (PDT)
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	by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B57351A3C39
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	by www.eros-os.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p3A2EkQn024566;
	Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:15:00 -0700
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	Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:14:37 -0700
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	<[email protected]>, <[email protected]> HELO eros-os.com)
	by eros-os.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.3)
	with ESMTPA id 139685164 for <[email protected]>;
	Sat, 9 Apr 2011 18:17:04 -0300