Trilight Zone

[thedark]

"A few days after Christmas, I started receiving mail addressed to the webmaster accusing us of spamming. Seeing as we only send to our opt-in mailing list and we hadn't sent it out for a while, I figured it was an isolated incident; some misguided individual using @linux.org in the From: header. After a few days, the number of mails sent to the postmaster/abuse addresses numbered in the hundreds. We were looking at 6 or 7 different types of messages, advertising anything from casino gambling to celebrity nudes to prescription medicines. All had been sent by someone using a name plus several digits and our domain. People were irate and accusing us of something we hadn't done. I was nonplussed. The only leads we had as to who was doing this were a few phone numbers and some normal and some obfuscated URLs.

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More info at: http://www.linux.org/about/spam.html