Re: [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 03:18:18 EST

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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:52:45AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:47:54PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > There is someone basically forging email from anyone prominent
> > in the opensource community. I've even got these forges myself
> > addressed as from myself which is even more amusing :-)
>
> Yes, indeed. However, their address collection may be a bit out-of-date:

It is less smart than you may think - it sends email 'FROM' people 'TO'
people who are listed next to eachother on webpages. See for example the
authors list on http://lartc.org, we continually get virusses that appear to
come from ourselves.

Regards,

bert

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