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Re: Authentication and email
Same here. I have noticed an increase in spam using my ietf listing
RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>
Sent by: owner-wgchairs@ietf.org
01/28/2003 04:39
To: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
cc: wgchairs@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Authentication and email
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> checking:
>
> were those SPAM mails, or were those VIRUS mails?
> we know that this has been a problem with virii, but so far, I haven't
> seen
> spammers using this deliberately.
Harald,
There definitely have been many non-virus spam messages sent out using
forgeries of one of my email addresses as the claimed source in the
From: line of the mail headers. I have also seen non-virus spam
forgeries
using other IETF folks' mail address as the alleged source in the
From: line.
It is pretty clear that at least one spammer is using online archives
of IETF mailing lists as a place to grab From: information for their
header forgeries. Sigh.
Ran