Identified and deleted phisher

Adam Engst (apparently) - 08:39am Jun 16, 2009 PST
via email

Hi folks,

Sorry for the hiatus in new messages of late. I asked Joe to hold off
on moderating until we solved a problem. Someone using the email
address peoplestring1gmail.com subscribed to TidBITS Talk (and a
bunch of other lists which only we can post to) and then replied to
posts with a spam/phishing message.

Luckily, I was able to identify the culprit through the messages a few
of you sent me, and I've delete that account, with prejudice. :-)

Sorry this happened, but unfortunately, there's no way to prevent it
from happening again. All we can do is play whack-a-mole if it does
happen again - please let me know right away if you receive a
spam/phishing message in reply to something you post to TidBITS Talk,
and be sure to send along the full headers and body of the message.
Now that I know what to look for, I can whack them quickly, assuming
the same patterns of behavior.

cheers... -Adam