[Python-Dev] Re: Hello

Samuele Pedroni pedronis at bluewin.ch
Thu May 27 11:39:37 EDT 2004


At 11:27 27.05.2004 -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
>[Barry]
> > Crap.  We're probably seeing the leading edge of a spam technique we've
> > long suspected could happen.  I'll be signing my posts from now on....
>
>I mentioned this morning that I've been getting a lot of this stuff directly
>(visibly addressed only to me), claiming to come from people on python-dev
>(past and present, from Vladimir Marangozov to Guido -- and even some
>claiming to come from me!).  None have been spam so far, they've all been
>lame Windows viruses, mostly hiding in .cpl files (Windows Control Panel
>Extension).
>
>I traced one claiming to come from you to an ISP in Kenya.  At least that
>was creative!

well one no fun part is that you can get failure delivery messages from the 
ultimate destination (either because of an invalid address, or some 
antivirus/spam software that believes that the From is the relevant source) 
to the forged from. 




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