On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:39:42PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> I thought I was paying attention, but I think I'm lost.
> 
> Anyone have directions?

For the record, what I was really suggesting was NOT that John Doe
forged the email with the MIME virus representation to make it look like
it passed through the listmailer when it fact he actually mailed it
directly to everyone on the list. No, that is clearly beyond John Doe's
abilities at forgery. That part was a joke. That message clearly DID go
through the listmailer, and I was just kidding with Nick, although I
was curious about it. Nick suggested that the reason it got through the
virus filters was because it was MIME encoded.

Also, the email apparently DID forge the From: address, otherwise brin-l
would not have sent it out. I guess the archive software shouldn't give
the email addresses (even with @ spelled out) because then people can
grab one, forge an email, and get the entire list to receive the spam or
virus.


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Erik Reuter   http://www.erikreuter.net/
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