Christopher Clements <bcnjr5@gmail.com> writes: ... >>That then provokes a small fraction of the victims to shout at us, >>because they don't know ho to read headers. >> >>That is what you are seeing. > > Are you saying that these messages were not sent to > <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> and relayed to subscribers, but were > instead forged to look like they were? [I note that I missed this question earlier.] Yes, the message that Illuminati got (which he subsequently replied to) almost certainly didn't go via any debian infrastructure at all (if the similar messages I got were anything to go by, which I think they are). However, because the spam meaasges are created by copying most of the headers from a genuine list mail, when you reply to such a message, it turns up on our lists, and looks like it might even be a reply to a real thread (until you notice that the body of the message they were replying to has never previously been seen on the list). Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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