In the last ten minutes or so I’ve got a bunch of mail to the e-mail in my sdmb account. That e-mail is private and I haven’t given it to anyone else.
It looks like someone has subscribed me to newsletter@raraavisband.com (looks like a mailing list) then someone posted a message, someones auto-reply replied and now we’re in an endless cycle.
( They’re auto-reply doesn’t seem to check if it’s already replied to an address )
Anyone else getting this, I’ve looked at the headers and I’m sure that the real destination is the address I registered here with. I’m also fairly sure that I only used that here and at the temp board.
I’m not complaining (unless the mounting snowball dumps hundreds of mails on my computer by tomorrow, ten or so I can handle) just wondering if anyone else got this ?
Yes! I got eighteen of those stupid things just a little while ago. I was wondering what in the world was going on. I didn’t even attribute it to it being my email address for the SDMB, but only a few people know about this address.
I also got some auto replies from Yahoo Groups, too. I don’t even belong to any of those.
Wonder what’s up? Perhaps it’s just some kind of website guy spamming emails. Surely he’ll get bored soon. (crosses fingers)
So it does look like they got the e-mail from the here or the bbboy website then. Weird.
I wonder if someone stole the user e-mails when the board was hacked.
Maybe it’s just one of those things.
SD
And on preview I see SilkyThreat’s been hit too, yeah I got the Yahoo auto-replies as well.
It’s basically we got subscribed (somehow) to a discussion list, then someone posts, that mail goes to everyone, someone on the list generates an auto-reply, this replies to everyone as well.
The really nasty part is when the auto-replier replys to its own automatic reply. The way out is to unsubscribe from the discussion list, although that has the side-effect of showing that your e-mail is valid to any spammers watching.
I got it too, and it worries me, because I think my E-mail address is limited to 25 letters per day. Anyway, if it picks up again, is unsubscribing the way to go?
Some of them are responses to the newsletter, saying “why on earth have you sent me this”. It concerns me that I now have the email addies of a heap of strangers. I wonder who has mine.
Yes, I got it too. I’ve unsubscribed. I got something like 10 auto replies from one address, plus forwarded messages from people responding to those replies.
Oho. I got it as well. The worst part was getting caught in that endless email feedback loop, and the people who couldn’t seem to read the headers. They got the auto-reply, replied with, “What are you talking about? I didn’t send you any email!” which got sent to everybody on the list, and in turn generated another auto-reply. I got at least 20 emails within the course of half an hour. Arrrgggghhh. I set up a filter to dump them in the trash, but sending an email to the unsubscribe address seemed worth the risk, and seems to have worked. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, anyway.
Not possible, reprise. I had changed my board email address before the hack, and it got reset when they put the boards back up - and the mail I’m getting is to my current board email address.
B. don’t ever subscribe to the ‘email me when some one responds to this’ (I got burned on that the first month I was here by posting to a ‘are you a cat lover or dog lover’ thread. gads the emails I got off of that!)
Bugger, it’s even more worrying that our email addresses have been harvested if it’s current. It means someone has found a way to access email addresses which aren’t public.
