Re: Spam impersonating me (was Re: Spam: the last straw)
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> > > I'd post to abuse@psi.net and report the issue. There's not a whole lot
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Do you know this is the correct address to send complaints to or are you
> > just assuming the "abuse" part? If so, where did you find it?
>
> It's a convetional address. Another good alternative is:
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> <domain>@abuse.net
>
> e.g.:
>
> psi.net@abuse.net
>
> The folks at abuse.net maintain active reporting lists of addresses for
> specific domains. This is my default reporting address. It also
> insulates you somewhat from the spam source.
>
That sounds a lot better (mailing abuse.net, that is). I notified my ISP
(Yahoo!, in this case) and, upon notifying abuse.net, will probably call
it quits.
> > P.S. I was informed off-list that the debian-user list policy prohibits
> > the use of symbols to represent profanity. I'm ashamed to say that I
> > wasn't aware of this and apologize to anyone who may've been offended by
> > my use of such "obscured cussing" at the beginning of my message... I was
> > kind of ticket off when I wrote it.
>
> Fuck that shit.
>
:-) I know, I've seen quite a bit of profanity on this list in the past,
but I usually try to respect other people on such issues so I thought
an apology was in order.
> Informed by whom? There's no notice of such a policy on the Debian
> website. The only list policies I'm familiar with are open/closed
> subscription, moderation, and the advertising policy:
>
> http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads
>
Yeah, that's all I found when I looked... I just assumed I wasn't
looking hard enough.
>
> <aside>
> 'From:' headers are so easy to forge, aren't they....
> </aside>
>
Yep... done it myself a couple times :-) (as pranks to people I knew, of
course. I later notified them that it was me).
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