[CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

Fri Jan 4 19:39:29 UTC 2008
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

John Hinton wrote:
> I guess the big advantage to them on list is the archive now contains their 
> post and if there was a URL, a link from the CentOS archive, pretty well 
> positioned by Google and the likes, now points to their site possibly 
> moving them up on the search engines. It's actually a pretty good tactic.

The problem is that there was no advertisement inside the messages. It
could be for enumerating hosts in a bot net later on.

> Is nothing safe?

Safe from spammers? No. There's good and easy money to be made (think
about it, most work goes on at the recipient side). 

Ralph
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