Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assistly@gmail.com"
On Wed 02 May 2012 at 14:38:47 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2012 19:30:09 +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> > joe1assistly, surely?
>
> Yes. This is the "from" line where the name is faked to appear to come
> from the list:
>
> ***
> From: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <joe1assistly@gmail.com>
> ***
The software used to generate the mail may very well be inept; it might
even be trying to be helpful to the recipient. I doubt it is attempting
to deceive.
> > Let them post the headers and bodies then. Whatever is happening at
> > gmane I think we can be certain the mails you got (and are still
> > getting?) are not from other users on this list.
>
> Still getting, yes.
>
> And yes, I now don't think these messages are coming from users on this
> mailing list, it looks more an automatism triggered by our (some?) posts
> here but I don't know what could be, tough the common link for those who
> receive the e-mails is indeed that we replied to posts here.
As desk.com are the ones picking up mail from the list, only they are
in a position to say from where they originate. Perhaps they have
subscribed to debian-user. :)
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