On 2008-09-10, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Could whoever is responsible for the gateway that is grabbing >> my postings off of Usenet and e-mailing them out please fix the >> headers in the mail messages so that I don't get the bounce >> messages? > > The bounce messages are sent to you because you sent the > original.
Wrong. I didn't send _any_ e-mail. Why should I get bounce messages? Isn't sending e-mails pretending they're from somebody else considered unethical (if not illegal)? >> Its a bit rude to send out mass e-mail messages with headers >> faked up so that the bounce messages go to somebody else. > > Indeed it is rude, and the person subscribed to the mailing > list whose software is sending these bounce messages is the > one responsible for making it stop. No, the one who's sending e-mail with forged headers is the one who ought to make it stop. That e-mail was not from me. It was from somebody who grabbed the article off a usenet server and mailed it to a bunch of people. > The mailing list software can't help (nor can the news-to-mail > gateway). > > In the meantime, the usual fix is for the list administrator > to unsubscribe the offending party (the one sending automated > bounce messages). I think the list administrator ought to stop putting other people's e-mail addresses in the From: headers of e-mails he's sending. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list