Re: [Mailman-Developers] FYI -- mailback validations no longer safe?
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:32:53 -0500 Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org> wrote:
Like Chuq, I shudder at the thought of someone forging subscriber addresses to spam mailing lists.
I've already had posts (three times now) to my lists purportedly from members of that list (From: header etc), where the members in question deny ever having written those posts, and careful examination of the Received headers supports their claim that it wasn't them.
The simple transaltion is that it sure as heck *looks* like people are already forging mail as members of lists. The fact that the posts happened to be on-topic is slightly droll and beyond my ability to explain.
-- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) : http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
At 8:47 PM -0800 12/9/00, J C Lawrence wrote:
The fact that the posts happened to be on-topic is slightly droll and beyond my ability to explain.
I've had that happen, and it was finally tracked to another list member who was pissed at the first, and attempting to ruin their reputation on the list. Don't downplay the underlying personal interactions and politics of a list, especially one iwth strong emotions, where otherwise mature people act like three year olds over a stale donut.
-- Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com) Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq@apple.com)
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