Re: in case you missed this from ponik
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:25 pm, 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.
does this mean any cretin with a grudge could bring the web to a painfully
slow grind at will? it seems like a massive flaw in the greater system. with
today's event in mind, and apart from forwarding headers to the listmaster
and abuse@<domain of origin>, is there anything else that can be done? any
other means of redress or complaint?
ben
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