Didn't see anything in the message headers, it was just a plain old spam
e-mail from someone who had been a member of the group for years. My
assumption was that it wasn't deliberate by the member, so I just set to
moderated, rather than banning him, as I would with a normal join-then-spam
spammer.
IIRC, my spam checker did correctly identify the e-mails as spam when they
hit my computer from the group. My office's spam checker definitely
intercepted them at work.
Regards, Dave S
----- Original Message -----
From: "1z" <1z@compuserve.com>
To: <ExcelVBA@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ExcelVBA] Attention!! Fake group posts
>
> Agree.... General solution... Be vigilant!!
>
> .. And thank you for the information. I'll try and look at Excel Experts
> later.
>
> OOI... What did you see in the email headers that caught your attention?
>
> Lisa
>
> Sent: Thu, May 3, 2012 12:14 am
> Subject: Re: [ExcelVBA] Attention!! Fake group posts
>
>
>
> My sincere apologies, it was from the same posters account but to
> xcel Experts................
> [Excel Experts Club] From Norman May ncmay@yahoo.com "this is rather
> wesome http://t.co/jBaeXzrA"
> However the same thing goes regarding the posting mechanism, in this
> ase Norman replied saying he was
> aking control of the hijacked account, thus any group is at the mercy
> f members who have poor "quality"
> asswords or are at risk of "occupation" by trojans etc etc
> Regards
> Dr B
> On 2 May 2012 15:58, 1z <1z@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dr B...
>
>
> Do you have a message number where the explanation was made please?
>
> Good point about the headers.
>
>
> Lisa
>
>
> Sent: Wed, May 2, 2012 2:50 pm
> Subject: Re: [ExcelVBA] Attention!! Fake group posts
>
>
>
> Hi
> If you read the other posts in the group it was explained the
> ost was legitimately to the group** BUT from an account
> hat had been hijacked due to the account holder
> aving a password that was not cryptographically
> obust
> Dr B
> *learn to read email headers :)
>
>
>
>
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