# Is anyone getting weird mail at their SDMB e-mail ? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 27, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996 "2002-04-27T20:04:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/1 "2002-04-27T20:04:54Z")
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](mailto: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 ? Thanks, SD ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/2 "2002-04-27T20:24:08Z")
That happened to me, too. I already unsubscribed from that list. Was it some email about “You’re using my old e-mail address”? ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/3 "2002-04-27T20:25:41Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/4 "2002-04-27T20:32:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*Was it some email about “You’re using my old e-mail address”? \*\* Yup, that’s it. 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. It seems to have calmed down on it’s own anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/5 "2002-04-27T21:31:44Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/6 "2002-04-27T21:41:25Z")
I got it too. Weird. Anyway, I blocked the addresses, so at least I won’t see any more e-mails from these people. Robin ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/7 "2002-04-27T21:43:33Z")
Yep. I got 10 of them too. 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. My email addy isn’t even public on this board. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/8 "2002-04-27T21:49:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/9 "2002-04-27T21:53:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/10 "2002-04-27T21:56:30Z")
I’ve got about 20 of them so far. How do you unsubscribe? They are multiplying as we speak! ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/11 "2002-04-27T21:57:54Z")
Well, what do you know. I’ve got two of them as well. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/12 "2002-04-27T22:01:16Z")
As a data point, I haven’t gotten any e-mails from or about this newsletter. I also didn’t sign up at the temporary SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/13 "2002-04-27T22:02:39Z")
P.S., I think removing yourself from the mailing list actually just sends more e-mails out. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/14 "2002-04-27T22:05:49Z")
Ok, I’ve just unsuscribed. Does anyone have an e-mail with my addy? ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/15 "2002-04-27T22:11:36Z")
I checked all the headers, and everything is originating from [mail.webhostingprovider.com](http://mail.webhostingprovider.com) (207.114.164.37). The IP resolves properly on a DNS. My guess is that the email addresses were collected during the hack. Mine was public prior to then. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/16 "2002-04-27T22:16:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/17 "2002-04-27T22:24:35Z")
Hmmm. it’s not happening to me. of course I : A. don’t have my email public here and 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!) ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/18 "2002-04-27T22:32:17Z")
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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/19 "2002-04-27T22:34:46Z")
Either that or they harvested the addresses a couple months ago and didn’t do anything with them until just now. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996/20 "2002-04-27T22:36:14Z")
Actually, it would’ve had to’ve been back around January for them to’ve gotten this address, unless they did it post-hack. Foo. I was hoping that would’ve been at least a slightly plausible possibility. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-getting-weird-mail-at-their-sdmb-e-mail/105996.md?page=2)