[Qt-interest] Boxbe spam on this list ?

[Stephen Collyer]

2009/4/2 Vincent L. Damewood <lists at damewood.us>

> 2009/4/2 Stephen Collyer <scollyer at netspinner.co.uk>:
> > I've started receiving spam messages from a boxbe.com address associated
> > with postings on this list - does anyone know why this is happening - has
> a
> > spammer got hold of the Qt-interest mailing list somehow ?
>
> It looks like someone subscribed to the Qt-Interest mailing list with
> some sort of spam blocker on their account. There's another thread of
> people saying they got the same message ("[Qt-interest] Postmaster
> messages"). I got a copy of it too, and it looks like a form letter
> sent out to every incoming message that's from someone who's not on
> that user's whitelist (which would probably include everyone of us on
> the Qt-Interest mailing list). It would also appear that messages from
> people not on the whitelist are filtered out of that user's inbox.
>

A bit of googling suggests that you're right - boxbe is some kind of spam
filtering system. I haven't received any more such messages though, so
maybe the culprit has fixed it.

-- 
Stephen Collyer
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