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Re: bug-gnu-utils and spam
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: bug-gnu-utils and spam |
Date: |
25 Oct 2003 17:21:14 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
> (There is a theoretical chance of spam being forged as coming from
> them and thus getting onto the list, but (a) that's never happened
> to me
It has happened to me on other lists. (The email was forged as being
from me.) Apparently this is a well-known spammer trick. Fixing this
requires looking at harder-to-forge headers; in the worst case it
might require cryptographic authentication.
But of course this can all wait until it turns into a real problem.