Re: Today's neo-nazi spam

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:23:56PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote:
>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Just FYI,
>>>
>>>these latest postings (which are 99% already filtered by the spam
>>>detection software on sourceware.org!) are the result of the most
>>>recent version of the Sober worm, Sober.P.  Sober.P's only job was
>>>apparently to download the next generation, Sober.Q into the infected
>>>PCs.  Sober.Q contains all this neo-nazi mud which it sent today out
>>>into the world.  All "From:" addresses in these postings are forged by
>>>the worm.  A German computer magazine, c't, assumes that the date is
>>>well planned to affect results of regional elections.  For more
>>>information see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59562 (in
>>>german).
>>>
>>>There's no reason to discuss anything related to this stuff, at least
>>>not in this group.  Just get over it.
>>
>>Thanks for the info.
>>
>>I hope it this spamming stops soon...  and that everybosy on this list
>>don't reply to the spam, just makes things worse.
>
>Yup yup, whatever we do, let's not generate extra traffic talking about
>this.

Definitely not.  Talking about the spam is exactly the wrong thing to do.

I sure hope it stops soon.

cgf