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Re: bug-gnu-utils and spam
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: bug-gnu-utils and spam |
Date: |
26 Oct 2003 08:30:48 +0200 |
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: 25 Oct 2003 17:21:14 -0700
>
> > (There is a theoretical chance of spam being forged as coming from
> > them and thus getting onto the list, but (a) that's never happened
> > to me
>
> It has happened to me on other lists. (The email was forged as being
> from me.)
Same here.
> Apparently this is a well-known spammer trick.
Actually, this mostly happens due to viruses, not human spammers. A
virus scans the address book and the sent-mail folder on the infected
machine, and uses the addresses it finds there to forge the From
header.