on 1/26/09 4:03 PM, Barry Finkel said:
We had a case last week when someone sent mail with a spoofed"From: ...." line that contained the e-mail address of the list owner. The mail was delivered to us via a SMTP mailer of an ISP, and we have in the mail headers the IP address of the sender.
Someone tried to hit the mailman-users list like this, and forged my own e-mail address to do it. Fortunately, they got caught by our anti-spam filters and rejected, and I only found out because the bounce message was not deliverable. Oy.
I have complained to the ISP in question, but the problem is that replies to that message are going to run afoul of the same anti-spam filter, so I'm probably not going to see them. I'm in the process of trying alternative methods of contact.
Fortunately for me, I happen to know the guy who runs the Internet Security group at this large broadband ISP (he's a former co-worker of mine from my AOL days), and he is the primary reason why I consider this to be one of the best large ISPs around.
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