Re: Anyone getting debian forged headers in Email?
On Thursday, 2 Sep 2004 02:23, Rthoreau wrote:
> You think spammers would know a little bit about the addresses they
> forge. But then again what they do makes no sense, I guess that is
> what spam filters are for. I just feel bad for Debian in general,
> cause someone might be mistaken, and really think it is from Debian.
> Or heaven forbid, say a problem arose and Debian decided to email
> alerts and people ignored them due to forged headers. I know it in
> very unlikely that Debian would do this, but I just despise these
> tactics, and the people who are putting Debian in a bad light.
Debian does not have a register of its users e-mail addresses. Any such
notices would go out on debian-announce and debian-security-announce to
those subscribed. I think it would take a lot before people start to
ignore messages from particularly the second source.
I think it's pretty clear that spammers these days like to use their
send lists as a source for forged headers and fake contact addresses.
We see that every week here on d-u, some weeks more than others, as
people write about cancelling subscriptions to services Debian doesn't
provide, being dissatisfied with purchases, or asking to be removed
from the send list (and I have a pretty good feeling they are not
actually on the d-u send list) -- not to mention the misconfigured mail
servers harassing debian-user about mails they got from someone who
said their name was debian-user.
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Alex Nordstrom
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