[RP TownTalk] spam in the name of TownTalk

[Dwight Holmes]

OK, well, I do apologize. I went to the TownTalk archives and see that
indeed, one msg did come through to the list - obviously (I assume) I must
have inadvertently approved it and I'm sorry for that.   I'm *very* grateful
it was this particular one - if I had to choose one of these to slip
through, this one is fine. Trust me.

FWIW, I see the reason I wasn't aware of it coming through is that my gmail
spam filter caught it, so it never made it to my inbox.  For spam control,
gmail totally rocks.

Dwight

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>wrote:

> Friends and neighbors -
> It looks like at least some folks have received a spam email or two that
> looks like it came through the TownTalk list. If indeed it did come through
> the list I sincerely apologize! (By the way,just so you know, there are
> dozens, sometimes hundreds of these a day that i get to look at and sort
> through to pass judgment on).
>
> To the best of my knowledge I did not forward any of these to the list. I
> could be wrong, one may have slipped through and, again, I apologize for
> that. The one that showed up in my wife's email has *nothing* in the to:
> line. the subj line includes the usual [RP TownTalk] line but it looks like
> somehow the spammers got an address list from somebody's machine that
> includes people who have posted to the list and whose addresses are thus
> included as addressees (as a function of people using "reply all" which then
> sends the message to the list as a whole AND to previous posters on that
> thread.).  If my hypothesis is correct, you may have received this spam msg,
> but it did not go to the list as a whole.
>
> I would greatly appreciate it if anyone who has received one of these spam
> msgs today could  pleast take a look at the email and letme know (off list)
> what is in the TO: field - i.e., who is the message addressed to.
>
> Meanwhile, I will attempt to remain vigilant!
>
> Your list moderator,
>
> Dwight Holmes
>
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