Hi Tweets:
I too received two spams w/ girlie pix, that looked like they were from Tweeters. But I noticed the two spammers had similar screen names with part of my gmail password imbedded in them!
Yesterday I changed my gmail psword. But then when I tried to access Tweeters, I could not. So THEN, I got onto the http://mailman address that is at the bottom of all of the Tweeters msgs. I changed my Tweeters address and at the same time, for good measure I changed my Tweeters psword. A real pain for low-tech me.
Turns out the spammers can now find out your password. There is an interesting video on ask.com about how to stop your passwords from being hacked. I entered "how to stop my gmail from being hacked", but you could plug in your own email provider like yahoo or whatever. When coming up with a new password that should be nonsense numbers and letters, look at the bottom of a dollar bill or something for a bunch of random numbers.
Hope this helps. I'm no expert though.
Yours, Carol Schulz
Des Moines


From: Pterodroma at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:58 AM
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Bill Anderson's spam message alert


Thanks for posting this Bill (confirms that I'm not the only one!) as I've been getting presumably exactly the same, 2-3 times a day for the past three days coming each time from a different fictitiously named unknown "person" each time in reply to one of my and each time same messages posted recently on tweeters. Fortunately that message warranted no reply from anyone and easy to dispose of. I only 'read' two when I realized what it was and NEVER clicked on the embedded web link. Now that I know what this is, I just send all these 'suspect' messages unopened/unread to my 'report spam' option. Hopefully this will be resolved and go away soon. But I am grateful at least to know that this matter wasn't just me and something malicious that somehow invaded my airspace, but more widespread, ...and hopefully harmless if left untouched. Thanks!

Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate), WA