On Thu, Apr 12, 2007, Ely Levy wrote about "spam": > Hey, > It seems some spammers are faking the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address to send > spam to the list. > Anyone remembers why is this address subscribed in the first place? is it > for archiving porpuses? > If so can it be changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or so?
Just to expand on the background that Ely gave, the problem here is that the same address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is both an alias for the list (mail that is sent to it gets to the list) and a subscriber. This is bad, for several reasons, but the important reason in this case is that some spammers use the same address in the From: as in the To: (supposedly to make you think that it's mail you sent, so it's important, or something), and when such a spammer spams to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], the message gets accepted. So the question is, why do we need the same address to be both an alias to the list, and a subscriber. -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Apr 12 2007, 24 Nisan 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Software is like sex, it is better when http://nadav.harel.org.il |it's free -- Linus Torvalds ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
