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Subject: Has your rosity email been lifted by spammers?

prodev opened this issue on Jul 08, 2007 · 411 posts


Seren posted Tue, 17 July 2007 at 8:22 AM

Quote - Please, read what I write, not what you want to read.
I said that there are computers infected with trojans generating spam emails with spoofed 'send from' info to amongst others, Renderosity members. And that's a perfectly good explanation of what's going on, why you are receiving spam on and from Rendo accounts.
I didn't say it's your fault or it's your system doing that.  You are on the receiving end and sometimes it looks like you've sent spam to yourselves thanks to the 'spoofing'.
That's all.
To paraphrase you, TrekkieGrrrl: " WHY is it that hard for members to admit that there may be faults in the glorious members' system?"

This is the last I'll say on this subject. "Why write if you choose to read what's not written?"

 

As a Sysop on another news-server I'm appalled by the way you Andy are answering posters genuine concerns about spam!
A moderator should be polite at least.

I'm having exactly the same problems other posters in this thread have with spam to an email which is dedicated to Renerosity.  I do not have trojans etc. That's insulting to people's integrity to suggest it's our fault.  There is a flaw in the system somewhere and I can assure you it's not in mine.  This thread has confirmed what I suspected - that the fault lies with Renderosity.
As someone who addresses questions about computer security I know that the only way spammers could get hold of Renderosity addys is for Renderosity systems to have a flaw which allows addys to be stolen.
The spam started several weeks ago.

I suggest that you cool down Andy and have some discussions with other mods and Admin and address posters' genuine concerns in a civil and adult manner.