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
I'll point out that mailing list archives is just one place.