Mails not from me

Tue Nov 2 18:15:07 UTC 2010

 Looks like the spam isn't going to stop.  I don't know what steps were taken to block Alan Pope's spoofed email address (I suspect the source IP address but that is not failsafe) but it appears that the only way to really stop it would be to block the email address itself, at least for now.  Alan should probably use another email address for a time, very unfortunate, but most likely necessary.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Cc: Community Council List <community-council at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 5:26 am
Subject: Mails not from me

Hi,

Looks like someone was trying to send a bunch of spam mail to the

ubuntu-users to the list as me.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-November/233157.html

It wasn't me or any system I own/administer, broken or otherwise. From

one of those mails:-

Received: from [175.107.158.213] (helo=dev)

    by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69)

    (envelope-from <alan at popey.com>) id 1PDDtx-0001M8-9o

    for ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:15:37 +0000

Received: from dev (localhost [127.0.0.1])

    by dev (Postfix) with SMTP id 7708995A8540

    for <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>;

    Tue,  2 Nov 2010 05:15:32 -0500 (CDT)

Where 175.107.158.213 is:-

k9.ausics.net           A       175.107.158.213

Only person I can see using that address on this list is Res.

Received: from k9.ausics.net ([175.107.158.213])

       by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69)

       (envelope-from <res at ausics.net>) id 1Oibgy-0001SE-DD

       for ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:23:40 +0100

So I guess he's trying to get me blocked for spam. Nice.

I've blocked that host from mailing this list which should stop the

mails coming through. Apologies for the disruption.

Al.

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