[Mageia-discuss] (no subject)

Remco Rijnders remco at webconquest.com
Wed Oct 12 16:33:17 CEST 2011


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:02:29PM +0200, Johnny wrote in 
<201110121202.33216.cooker at solbu.net>:
>On Wednesday 12 October 2011 11:34, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> it's easy to spoof and send
>> with another users address as sender id.
>
>And it looks like that's what happened here, from what I can determine.
>
>The two posts from Duane, that I found, was sendt from "***.dsl.mindspring.com"
>while the spam was sendt from "88.253.250.161" (.ttnet.net.tr - Turkey) via the same SMTP server, using Earthlinks webmail. (According to headers.)
>So it appears that Duane doesn't have a compromised system after all, as Florian suggested.
>
>Oh well.
>Like they say, shit happens to good people too. :-)=

And perhaps more incentive to GPG-sign mails by default... you're less 
likely to get labelled a spammer when suddenly someone decides to start 
sending mails in your name :-)
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