Digital BW, The Print

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:54:25 +0100, Tony Sleep
<TonySleep@...> had a flock of green cheek conures squawk
out:

>On 28/06/2010 Tom Mallonee wrote:
>> Perhaps (if not too much trouble) you could privately alert those of 
>> us
>> who's accounts were breached?
>
>It's public knowledge. The list spams originated from
>dsmall9917@... & mel_levine@...
>
> From the headers, they originated from aol webmail and yahoo webmail 
>mailservers respectively, indicating authentic accounts rather than merely 
>spoofed sender addresses.
>
>Both accounts have been used to post non-spam, on-topic issues to this 
>list in the past, so are not specially created disposable spammer 
>accounts. Therefore they have likely been compromised by someone cracking 
>the passwords.
>
>I've mailed Dave Small and Mel Levine to let them know.

Sending messages to a yahoogroup via email only requires a subscribed
email address.  They don't need the actual email account.

-- 

Stephen

Everybody should believe in something: I believe I'll have another drink.