Re: [OT] Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?
On 5/23/05, s. keeling <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
> Incoming from David Jardine:
> >
> > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just
>
> I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend
> two seconds scanning the original's Received: headers, they'd know I
> had nothing to do with it. Blast it back to those fools and tell them
> to read email headers, and turn off their idiotic mail-bot until they
> do (if at all).
>
> Spammers are forging From: addresses, have been for at least a year,
> and anyone who looks at mail headers can see whether it's been done.
> Spamcop isn't fooled by moronic tricks like this. It drills down and
> finds the real culprit.
>
>
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> (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me.
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Part of the problem is that this list is also a widespread public usenet group,
and many spammers harvest e-mails from them as well as post spam to
the group itself.
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