Re: in case you missed this from ponik
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this
> > statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list
> > management. something similar happened in debian-kde just recently. in the
> > interest of preventing anymore of the same in the future, anybody want to
> > offer conjecture on how this could happen?
>
> There was some discussion about it on IRC, and somebody pointed out that
> toughguy.net is an e-mail forwarding service. If that's the case, then
> it's possible to point the forwarder at yourself, subscribe to a few
> mailing lists, and then maliciously alter the forwarding address.
>
> It's not clear what can be done about this at Debian's end other than to
> encourage people to post full headers whenever anything goes wrong.
Has anyone contacted the abuse department of the provider of
toughguy.net? According to their web site, they are anti spam, and
therefore might consider action...
- Chris
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