From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262062AbTICMoO (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:44:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262074AbTICMoN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:44:13 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:45952 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262062AbTICMoK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:44:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:45:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Linux kernel Subject: SPAM Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello list, Everybody who has an account on yahoo probably knows that they sell their lists of email users to spammers. This is the condition upon which users get "free" service. However, they also send destination addresses to spammers also! This means that if you have a yahoo email address and send your wife or girlfriend a message using yahoo, she will immediately be deluged with spam advertising penis extenders, etc. Be forewarned. I recently put a new Linux machine "on the air". To see if email worked, I used my yahoo account, N26825@yahoo.com to send mail to the new machine. Within 20 minutes, I had 40 SPAM messages on that new machine. Some SPAM arrived BEFORE the message from yahoo. I reported this to abuse@yahoo.com, but it's a logical black hole. Again, be warned. They ARE out to get you, even if you are paranoid! Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (794.73 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.