Hi John,
While it is possible that the Spam is related to the list, I do not believe
it is. There has been a marked increase in Spam everywhere over the last
few months. There has been a tremendous rise in the use of "botnets"
recently. This has been true for businesses as well as personal accounts.
There has also been an increase in the use of picture spam recently which is
making it very difficult for a lot of filters to work.
Also, you are far more likely to get spam from posting in a newsgroup than
you are on a mailing list.
Hang in there, there are a lot of new tools coming out to combat this.
Joel
IT Director in real life
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of jhaeg
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:51 AM
To: 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: SPAM on Triumph e-mail list, and Truimph newsgroups
This is a little off topic.
I've been on this e-mail list for several years, because I own a TR6, and I
believe the collective group has an amazing amount of Triumph related
knowledge to share. Unfortunately the ratio of my SPAM e-mail to real
e-mail
is getting close to 20-1 in the last few months, and I'm starting to suspect
that this has something to do with being subscribed to the Triumph e-mail
group.
Thanks in advance for any of your replies.
John H. in Minneapolis.
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