[AusNOG] NANOG gone wild

[Mattia Rossi]

Seems they're using a script which goes through the archives and 
extracts sender and receiver from every archived e-mail.  It then 
recreates an email with the same sender and receiver but adapted subject 
and message.
Guess it takes just half a day or less to write something like that in 
Python or Perl.
So the more you wrote on NANOG, the more e-mail you'll get sent to you 
directly. And of course the list will get hammered. I'm pretty sure 
NANOG already filtered a lot of messages, and Gmail an additional bunch. 
What you see is just some leftovers.

Cheers,

Mat

Am 26.10.2015 um 06:19 schrieb Bevan Slattery:
> Should have checked the archived.  Failed tech support 101 :)  Thanks Tim.
>
> [b]
>
>
> On 26/10/2015 3:17 pm, "Tim Warnock" <timoid at timoid.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm getting a heap as well and the headers are showing as if they are
>> coming from the mailing list.
>>
>> "List-Id: North American Network Operators Group <nanog.nanog.org>"
>>
>> Also they are showing up on the archives:
>>
>> http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-October/thread.html
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joseph
>> Goldman
>> Sent: Monday, 26 October 2015 3:15 PM
>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NANOG gone wild
>>
>> Compare headers, is it coming from the list server as it normally would?
>>
>> On 26/10/15 16:10, Bevan Slattery wrote:
>>> UmmmŠ. So this is still a thing right?  It¹s either that the NANOG
>>> admins
>>> don¹t really care (doubt) or is it that they are actually forging the
>>> NANOG list address and it¹s not even hitting the mailing list at all?
>>> Because surely they would be shutting this down, but I am starting to
>>> think that perhaps this is not actually hitting the list itself.  Just
>>> people who have previously posted to the list.  #tinfoilhat
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> [b]
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25/10/2015 9:44 pm, "Bevan Slattery" <bevan at slattery.net.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just confirming everyone else subscribed is seeing NANOG Mail list has
>>>> gone nuts with forged email trying to get people to click on malware
>>>> bait.
>>>>
>>>> [b]
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