Email to gnu-system-discuss claiming to be rms

[Mike Gerwitz]

I'm spamming a number of people, since I don't know who best to contact.

Attached is a message sent to gnu-system-discuss that pretends to be rms,
but originates from a mirohost server.  I noticed that this header is
very similar to a message that claimed to be bill-auger on
gnu-linux-libre, which is also attached.

How can this be prevented, and can you please forward this to the right
people?  Do you have any idea who may be behind this?  I haven't
investigated further; it's very late here.

As you can imagine, especially given the current climate, if people
are able to convince others that messages originate from Richard, then
they could cause a quite a problem.  As an example, Jose Marchesi
replied to the message without expressing any sort of concern.

Richard would probably benefit from GPG-signing his messages as well.


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> Testing new mail server
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> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:51:04 +0200
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> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden\'s example. ]]]
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> Testing new mail server.
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> -- 
> Dr Richard Stallman
> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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> [GNU-linux-libre] GNU/Linux Activation Technologies
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> Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:10:51 +0200
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> Every GNU/Linux copy MUST be licensed and activated using GNU/Linux Activation 
> Technologies Client starting from 2019-11-01.
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> FSF Europe already set up their Key Server on http://glatks.eu5.org/
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> See https://notabug.org/GLAT/howtotell for details
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Mike Gerwitz

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