> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 6 16:21:40 2003 > > > --=.rC9j7h,QKjk)0T > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:10:03 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I hate to have to do this, but I own an apology to Paul Johnson. > > > > (Having received a mail from a list member with an example of a false > > CR. Talk about FAST.) > > For all that you do in trying to fight the spam problem, I find it > ironic that you yourself are contributing to the problem through your > mail headers. You're grossly violating your own netiquette that you > previously preached to us regarding PGP/GPG signatures. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a valid email address. I have verified by > checking with the eskimo.com mx server, fingering that username and > checking if you have a home directory on eskimo.com's shell. eskimo.com > is, however, a valid site whose mx is processing all the mail, > including spam from harvesters, and then bouncing them. By using an > invalid email address in your headers with a valid domain, the site's mx > is picking up the weight of spam, even though you are not. > > As a paying customer of eskimo.com, I feel that you should carefully > reconsider how you post to these mailing lists. Robert Dinse at eskimo > has a hell of a time fighting spam, as any admin at any site, and I do > not appreciate you causing him to receive more spam which the mx has to > bounce. > > (normally I would care less, but I feel more inclined to care in a > situation like this.) > > -- > Scott Christopher Linnenbringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.eskimo.com/~sl/info.txt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
Either this is a sick joke (and a poor one at that) or it is criminal. here's the post I sent from my sentmail mbox: q:Quit d:Del u:Undel s:Save m:Mail r:Reply g:Group ?:Help --- alanc Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at Subject: Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-CR: C I hate to have to do this, but I own an apology to Paul Johnson. (Having received a mail from a list member with an example of a false CR. Talk about FAST.) Spammers DO send false CRs, but they are EASY to spot. A real one will have: Subject: Re: The_Subject_of_Your_Original_Message AND the Reply-To: header will have the address that you mailed it to, making it simplicity itself to send it back, as well as adding another level of authentication. Alan -- For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. See: http://tinyurl.com/inpd for the scripts and docs. Welcome to my killfile. Alan -- For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. See: http://tinyurl.com/inpd for the scripts and docs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]