On Thursday, 2 Sep 2004 02:23, Rthoreau wrote: > You think spammers would know a little bit about the addresses they > forge. But then again what they do makes no sense, I guess that is > what spam filters are for. I just feel bad for Debian in general, > cause someone might be mistaken, and really think it is from Debian. > Or heaven forbid, say a problem arose and Debian decided to email > alerts and people ignored them due to forged headers. I know it in > very unlikely that Debian would do this, but I just despise these > tactics, and the people who are putting Debian in a bad light.
Debian does not have a register of its users e-mail addresses. Any such notices would go out on debian-announce and debian-security-announce to those subscribed. I think it would take a lot before people start to ignore messages from particularly the second source. I think it's pretty clear that spammers these days like to use their send lists as a source for forged headers and fake contact addresses. We see that every week here on d-u, some weeks more than others, as people write about cancelling subscriptions to services Debian doesn't provide, being dissatisfied with purchases, or asking to be removed from the send list (and I have a pretty good feeling they are not actually on the d-u send list) -- not to mention the misconfigured mail servers harassing debian-user about mails they got from someone who said their name was debian-user. -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to debian-user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
