Re: Email to gnu-system-discuss claiming to be rms

[Ian Kelling]

This is just about how to discuss this.

address@hidden is a public list, so it's not appropriate to discuss
this issue further there. Please drop it from any further replies.
Anyone who is on address@hidden and wants to be part of this discussion
can email reply to this email and cut out address@hidden, and I and
others will add you to the thread.

Also note: address@hidden is subscribed to the address@hidden list.

Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm spamming a number of people, since I don't know who best to contact.
>
> Attached is a message sent to gnu-system-discuss that pretends to be rms,
> but originates from a mirohost server.  I noticed that this header is
> very similar to a message that claimed to be bill-auger on
> gnu-linux-libre, which is also attached.
>
> How can this be prevented, and can you please forward this to the right
> people?  Do you have any idea who may be behind this?  I haven't
> investigated further; it's very late here.
>
> As you can imagine, especially given the current climate, if people
> are able to convince others that messages originate from Richard, then
> they could cause a quite a problem.  As an example, Jose Marchesi
> replied to the message without expressing any sort of concern.
>
> Richard would probably benefit from GPG-signing his messages as well.