[Dialogue] Grows?

[Timothy Wegner]

Folks, we ALL need to be technically "woke" and understand that spammers
are entirely able and willing to fake the return addresses of emails they
send.  This is a huge industry. This happens A LOT. You simply can't assume
that an email is really from who it appears to be from. They are hoping you
will respond and relax your guard because you think you know the sender. As
manager of the mailing lists, I can't tell you how many times the entire
contact lists of our members have been stolen, and spammers have begun to
post to the lists with faked return addresses.. Many times I have had to
mark a member as requiring my moderation so that the spammer's posts don't
get through. Usually the spam dies down after a few weeks and I can clear
the moderation flag.

Of course I don't know if the email Seth refers to was faked or not, since
I haven't seen it. It's usually pretty obvious.

I generally consider this kind of "meta talk" about email, security, etc to
be off topic, but since this has come up, I thought I should respond.

Tim


On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:56 PM Seth Longacre via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Well, the part that was disrespectful and potentially dangerous is
> definitely something an older “un woke” person could be oblivious about.
> But the email is the one you and Wendell mentioned, so this is making me
> think it was quite legitimate.
>
> Thank you.
>
>   Seth T. Longacre
>   Carlsbad, CA
>
> *"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his
> accomplices”  Edward R. Murrow*
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> On Oct 2, 2019, at 10:06 , David Dunn via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
>
> Out of the blue, Bill called me last week to visit. He said he hadn’t
> heard from us for a while and said he wanted to check to see that Burna and
> I are well. We had a pleasing conversation and I made a note to myself to
> be more communicative.
>
> The directory shows Bill’s and Nan’s emails as billgrow at verizon.net and
> nangrow at verizon.net.
>
> Anything disrespectful, let alone dangerous, sounds way out of character
> to me.
>
> Bill was Bill when we talked last week.
>
>
> David
>
>
> On Oct 2, 2019, at 10:50 AM, Seth Longacre via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> Is anyone in contact with Bill & Nan Grow? Are they on either of these
> email lists?
>
>
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> "Mystery, possibility, and the power to choose"
>
> David Dunn
> 740 S Alton Way 9B
> Denver, CO 80247
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> dmdunn1 at gmail.com
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