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Re: Headsup: Rogue or hacked account spamming via RT? re:
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:48:02PM -0400, Dave Korn via RT wrote:
>> Hello GNU webmasters,
>>
>> I hope this is the right place to report what appears to be a problem at
>> rt.gnu.org, I couldn't find an explicit contact address for it.
>>
>> We just got two posts on the GCC mailing list with the subject line
>> "[gnu.org #263454] Take home $204,000.00 this month":
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-09/msg00650.html
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-09/msg00651.html
>>
>> and according to the headers (visible by the "raw text" links at the above
>> URLs) these appear to have genuinely originated at rt.gnu.org via the web
>> interface:
>
> Isn't this more likely the RT admins closing spam reports?
It could be, I haven't seen anything like it happening before. Does it
often result in email to the lists?
I should have thought not to add the ticket # to the subject line though, I
assume that's why this post got mirrored here when I sent it to the webmasters
list. Sorry for the noise all.
cheers,
DaveK