Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Your email requires verification verify#4bg26YuBBDTEKTUcWJc_gMG4KDmFaNOI

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 17:40:11 EST


On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:49:51PM -0500, jeff wrote:

> On Friday 04 March 2005 2:22, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > I hate spam as much as anyone but these things coming off of
> > a list are a royal PITA.
>
> Except that they aren't coming from NKS. The headers are all forged, so that
> it looks like it came from nks. Trace the path back and you will see. :)

You'll have to provide some actual evidence, if you want to make the
case that the headers are spoofed. They are virtually identical to
those on the original email on that thread (except for the last hand-off
to Chuck's gmail account servers). You'd have to on this list to be able
to replicate the headers that well. And if you're spamming/scamming on
this list, I will sooner or later find out about it.

This is more likely a challenge-response email system set up by
nils@codewolf.com, which is coincidentally what it looks like.

I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again. If you're running a
challenge-response system against this list, and you haven't whitelisted
SLUG mail, you're in danger of being uns*bscr*bed. Challenge-response
systems sending rafts of challenges to the originators of email on this
list are as bad as spammers.

If anyone else has received challenges from nils@codewolf.com, please
let me know.

Paul

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