person pushing viagra and whatnot on this list

It's likely that your computer (or some computer that you've used) has
been infected with a virus or some other malware. The virus (or
whatever) captured your account credentials and then did its thing.
This is actually pretty common, but I don't recall seeing it on the
Saturn list until now.

Did you use a public terminal, such as a computer in a library or
school, by any chance? This happened to my wife and it took over her
Yahoo email.

Joe

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Knoel Scott wrote:
> This is knoel scott
>  i have not lived in Alaska since 2006 and in fact currently reside in nancy
> france . Im going back there on Sat\
> I am very frustrated that my name was used to peddle this trash and at  am
> very proud I have never needed or subscribed  for such medication
>  I In any rate I hope that I am still on the list and have no explainaition
> about why my name was used on the re of those stupid ads
>  welcome any investigation which will uproot this annoyance.  I hope i will
> not be blocked from this list but understand that the security of the list
> is a priority at this time.
> Sincerely
> Knoel scott
>
> From: "admin@outerspaceways.info"
> To: saturn@outerspaceways.info
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ Saturn ] person pushing viagra and
>
> [quote=Christopher Trent]Margaret, I do some of the admin on this list - the
> person pushing these messages out had subscribed at least 6 email addresses,
> which are now restricted/blocked.
>
> I think we do need Steve to look at this. (We need to make sure that this
> blocking is really working.) [/quote]
>
> As best as I can tell from looking at the system logs the spam that came
> through this morning came originally from an account created on the website
> rather than the mailing list. That account has been blocked from the website
> in addition to the blocking that Christopher did.
>
> I'm moving this thread to the Community Feedback forum (which doesn't get
> forwarded to the list but which is available for any listmembers to read and
> reply to at http://outerspaceways.info/forums/community-feedback ) so that
> we
> can have some more in-depth conversation about spam and how to address it.
>
> One thing troubling me is that unless Christopher deleted the web posting of
> this morning's viagra post, the spam filter for the website appears to have
> worked correctly to block the spam from posting on the forum, but did not
> stop it from coming through by email.
>
> I'm also concerned because Margaret, you said that you've received several
> this week. Looking back through both the forum posts and the mails I see
> three, all in the last 36 hours. Have I missed some?
>
> I have some ideas about how to best move forward, but they involve change,
> and I know no one likes change. In general, I'd like to take a step more in
> the direction of this being a Web-based forum with email features and away
> from being a mailing list with web features. We'd still keep the email
> posting address alive, of course, but we would lose the whole Mailman
> system.
> Digests would work differently, but probably would be more reliable.
>
> I invite anyone with opinions about the future of the list to come to the
> Community Feedback forum and continue this discussion. I don't want to make
> unilateral changes and I am committed to keeping this great list alive. I
> know that I've neglected things somewhat over the last year and I apologize
> for that but you also have to understand that my priority projects involve
> paying my rent and keeping my paying clients happy. This is a labor of love
> and that means that my attention is sporadic.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Steve
>
>
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