Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:06:23 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: Sangwoo Shim <ssw@neo.redjade.org> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Someone modifies From: field of mail and send them to lists. Message-ID: <20040225100623.GW45593@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20040225080105.GA635@neo.redjade.org> References: <20040225080105.GA635@neo.redjade.org>
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--U7NLafZe7Bh9OCap Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:01:05PM +0900, Sangwoo Shim wrote: > Hello. >=20 > Recently I've received couple of "Your message to freebsd-foobar awaits > moderator approval" messages. The lists were freebsd-www, freebsd-newbies, > freebsd-sparc64, and freebsd-test. Surely I didn't send them(spams) to the > lists. It seems that some bad guy modifies its From: header to mine and s= ent > spams to lists, which is quite annoying. Now I've canceled all the messag= es > as instruction said. I've been getting them too. They're actually addressed to lists that I am subscribed to, and not to me. > Actually I didn't unvail my e-mail address except an send-pr some months = ago. > I think spammers are collecting emails from pr page and abusing them. I think it's much more likely that they are harvesting on freebsd-bugs@, where most PRs get sent automatically (they all end up on one list or other). A quick look doesn't show much evidence of this happening via the webserver. > Can the pr pages be modified to convert originators' email like this: > someone@somewhere.com -> someone at somewhere.com ? While this could possibly be done on the webpages, it will never happen within the database itself and therefore will not stop address harvesting from the mailing lists, so I suspect it would be ineffective. Ceri --=20 --U7NLafZe7Bh9OCap Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAPHOfocfcwTS3JF8RApTsAJ4s6QcsRj5yvkcJjZOFiIei0bZCGwCfR2kD V2APK5z2PyQC/8JCDPZfhuM= =dqoH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --U7NLafZe7Bh9OCap--
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