The problem is that the messages are going to everyone in Chris' Yahoo
address book. That address book is on the Yahoo server. Can you send a
message to everyone that is in Chris' address book?
Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piers Goodhew" <piers@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Yes, something is wrong, I am NOT a spammer!!!
> ... so it looks like it's trivial to post under any name at all, using any
> valid list member address. This isn't really Y!'s fault, email was never
> designed to be verifiably authentic. I could post as "Barack Obama" using
> Chris' email address (but I wont, for several reasons).
>
> Group messages are viewable without requiring a login, and while it only
> shows the part before the @, my hunch is the spammer has had an automated
> script skim all group archives and then add "@..." to all users and
> tried to post from those addresses. Does anyone else post using a yahoo
> email?
>
> PG
>
> On 16/08/2010, at 9:59 PM, Piers Goodhew wrote:
>
>> It's possible they're just doing simple "from" spoofing - if so, then the
>> spammer does not and never has had access to yr account (or need not have
>> anyway). It's perfectly allowable in email to put whatever "from" address
>> you like, and if that's all yahoo groups cares about, then you only have
>> to have the email address of a valid group member.
>>
>> Only way to stop it would be to subscribe under a different email. Or get
>> Y! groups to do much more thorough authenticity checking, which is
>> actually pretty hard (both hard itself and hard to get Y! to change in a
>> hurry).
>>
>> I'll just try a quick post as me but from a totally different
>> account/server and see what happens ...
>>
>> PG
>>
>> On 16/08/2010, at 8:37 PM, Chris wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry about this guys. I am not a spammer but have no idea how this
>>> person(s) keeps doing this to me. I have changed passwords and have
>>> noticed that it does not matter which computer I use to post with. The
>>> last time this happened I was actually on my work computer which I
>>> completely killed and reinstalled the O.S.
>>>
>>> I will have to post on some other groups to see if the problem happens
>>> everywhere or just on this forum.
>>>
>>> I will change my password again but do not think this will clear up the
>>> problem as I have no idea how it is happening.
>>>
>>> Again, sorry about this guys but I have no way of stopping it.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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