[OS X TeX] Lyris List Manager?

[Ross Moore]

Hi Bruno,

On 28/07/2004, at 5:03 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Is it just me, or have other posters to this list received in the last 
> few days, shortly after posting, a message from a "Lyris ListManager", 
> with subject "re: your email message" and content:
>
>
> The following lines in your email message did not appear to be
> Lyris ListManager commands and were skipped:
>
>> [...]
>
> This email message is simply a notification of how Lyris ListManager 
> understood
> your email message.  If you want to resend your commands, send
> them to lyris at groups.ittoolbox.com

I get messages like this frequently, from various email lists
of which I am *not* a member.

Here's one, from a few days ago:

>> Your mail to 'ko' with the subject
>>
>>     Vyyajsmjnmt
>>
>> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>>
>> The reason it is being held:
>>
>>     Post by non-member to a members-only list
>>
>> Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
>> notification of the moderator's decision.

and part of another that came this morning:

>> Your message was missing suitable identifying information and could 
>> not be
>> automatically parsed and properly routed. Your message will not be 
>> read here
>> unless you add that information and resend.
>>
>> Help texts are available via the WorldWideWeb at 
>> http://arXiv.org/help ,
>> and many questions (e.g., regarding making submissions) are answered 
>> there.



Of course I sent no message to these legitimate sites, to trigger
these responses.

Someone is sending out spam, or virus-carrying messages, spoofing my 
email
address as the sender. I'm an easy target for spoofing, since my address
can be found in many, many places on the web; e.g. any site constructed
using LaTeX2HTML, from 1997 versions onwards.

There's nothing that I can do to stop this kind of action, but the
secondary effect is that I receive lots of rejection notices for email
that I've not sent, to lists to which I'm not subscribed, or to people
whom I do not know (and even some to people that I *do* know!).
The latter type come from virus detectors finding a bad attachment
in these bogus emails.


Thank goodness for spam/virus filters --- but since a rejection message
may actually be legitimate, I tend to let these through and trash them
manually.


BTW, yesterday I got a large increase in spam/junk getting through the
filters. This included several messages of a type that I'd not seen
previously. More of these came today.

Has anyone else noticed a significant increase in junk emails ?


Cheers,

	Ross


>
>
> Bruno Voisin
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