From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 5 20:25: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0856D37B401; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5251343ED1; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h064P01e057469; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:25:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 21:23:25 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030105.212325.32059443.imp@bsdimp.com> To: grog@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: brett@lariat.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Forged e-mails From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030106040539.GF71170@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200301060353.UAA25115@lariat.org> <20030106040539.GF71170@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030106040539.GF71170@wantadilla.lemis.com> "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: : On Sunday, 5 January 2003 at 20:53:41 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: : > It has come to my attention that an unknown party has been sending messages : > to several of the FreeBSD mailing lists from the address "brettglass@ml1.net". : > The messages are not mine; they're being sent from a bogus account on a : > Webmail service known as FastMail. An abuse report has been filed with : > that service. Until the account is disabled, kindly ignore all mail from : > that address. : : *sigh* Brett, this is off-topic. We've repeatedly asked you in the : last few days not to send off-topic mail. Please don't do it again. : : Yes, we realize that the mail is forged. You're not exactly the only : one who's had his name abused in this manner, and we're doing what we : can to bring the perpetrator(s) to justice. Actually, it isn't that off topic. The forgery was a good one, so one disclaimer is warranted. Multiple ones aren't, of course, but a one shot isn't that bad. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message