[iyonix-support] Re: Spam infiltration

In message <4e2aa34c4e.chris@xxxxxxxxxx>
          Christopher <c.r.dewhurst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <4e4ca20f6dMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Martin
> wrote:
> 
>> In article <c2921b4c4e.harriet@xxxxxxxxxx>,
>>    Harriet Bazley <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I've just received six spams (three yesterday and another three today)
>> > to the address that I only use for this mailing-list, and which should
>> > not be present in any Windows-user's address book;  have we been
>> > infiltrated?   :-(
>> 
>> I certainly had a strange one in reply to a post of mine today - it was
>> from 'van der Waal Zeefdruk BV <hans at vanderwaal.nl>' and it was
>> (presumably) in Dutch, and I could make little sense of it.
>> It had X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) in the headers.
> 
> From my (terrible) Dutch I think he says he is on
> vacation until 4 August and will be closed for business.
> I got this in 'response' to my question about OfficeJet
> 6210 printer. Very strange - are the spammers getting
> creative?

That was not spam. It was an out-of-office message from a list member. 
If someone on the list has an auto-reply service then each sender of a 
message to the list gets an auto-reply. This is perfectly normal. Of 
course, for precisely this reason it is not a good idea to enable an 
auto-reply service for an address that is subscribed to mailing lists.

Martin
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