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Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups



On 2006-04-03, Pascal Hakim penned:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:18:19PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>> I'm having trouble envisioning this as a huge problem.  At some
>> point, whatever converts the mailing list to HTML had access to the
>> headers, so it seems like it would be pretty easy to only affect,
>> say, the From header.
>
> Some people leak headers into the body of their email.
>
> For example, the first email in this month's archive:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg00000.html
>

Okay, that helps clarify the problem.  Thanks.

(I personally suspect that the email address I use confuses a lot of
spam apps.  "Hrm, remove the word spam ... but wait, that's not a
legal address, toss that."  I do check this address, but it's pretty
easy to identify the fake amazon/chase/ebay/paypal/etc phishing
expeditions.)


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