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forgeries increasing


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: forgeries increasing
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:47:35 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Forgeries are getting more common.  Take this one for example.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2008-01/msg00103.html

The message is using a forged address from a poster who has several
other in that same thread.  The forged message came in through a news
to mail gateway.  Actual messages from that poster are being sent by
email.  By looking at the message headers it is easy to see that these
messages are coming from different senders.  But because the forged
address was subscribed to the mailing list it was passed through
without any check.

Here are several more examples:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2008-01/msg00088.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2008-01/msg00090.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2008-01/msg00091.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2008-01/msg00093.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2008-01/msg00098.html

All of these look to have come through a news gateway.

I have turned on emergency moderation for that list for the moment.

Bob







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