[afnog] Here's an invitation

Brian Candler B.Candler at pobox.com
Tue Aug 22 14:45:22 SAST 2006


On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:37:03PM +0300, Patrick Okui wrote:
> > 2. this is an AFNOG person who really did send a spam to the
> > list; or 
> 
> Almost... the source site (http://playtoday17e.com/) is one of 
> those gimmicks that ask you to enter your Yahoo/AOL/Hotmail 
> information (together with the password) and then read your 
> addressbook spamming all entries therein - changing the From 
> header.
> 
> A quick glance at the headers doesn't show an obvious way to 
> avoid such incidences unless I'm missing something.

Difficult to avoid before it happens. You could have an acceptable usage
policy for the afnog at afnog.org list though, and block people who abuse it in
this way.

Regards,

Brian.


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