On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, R. Peter Ejtel wrote: > It seems the individual responsible for the Spambully challenges has come > forth. Unfortunately the challenges were being issued due to their > misunderstanding between how our list sends the from address on posts.
If those messages were truly from the spambully C/R system, spambully is very flawed and should be shut done until the flaws have been corrected. In my opinion one of the main features of a C/R system is to *not* send a C/R to a mailing list posting. Generally this is handled by filtering based on the "Precedence: bulk" header. Next, as was pointed out, the C/R system was *randomly* forging the origination host name and the from address on the C/R messages. This made the messages appear to be from the mailing list *or* from individual users on the list. As a matter of fact, a few months ago, Elliot Noss received one of those spambully C/R messages that claimed to be from *me*. If I remember correctly, forging mail headers is illegal in many parts of the world. Finally, the spambully C/R system incorrectly assumes the recipient of the challenge has access to a graphical web browser. I know of hundreds if not thousands of people who read their e-mail via text-only devices (blackberries, PDAs, cell phones, etc.) Spambully is one of the C/R systems giving C/R a bad name.
