From: Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:04:11 +0200 You don't know? There could be many. Using somebody else's name and address is one, that is up to Sven and others to decide what they do about it. There's nothing at all that Sven can do about it. Some automated software harvested Sven's address somewhere (probably from somebody's address book). That person's computer is/was infected, but tracking it down would be hopeless. Even if that one individual who was infected is tracked down, there will be hundreds, thousands, or even millions more. Sending a virus is illegal too, right? And if I would want to do something, I would file a case against the persons whos names appear in the mails. But pretty quickly I would learn the addresses were maybe faked. I don't have to understand these technical issues for filing a case. As others have pointed out, faking the sender address is trivial. The message-id said an hungarian(?) site. Can adm block the mails where the sender address does not match the message-id? These large binary postings are specially annoying for me, a digest subscriber. A spam block and virus scanner on the list could help, and that's probably the one practical thing the list maintainer could do. However, it won't catch everything, and the spammers aren't standing still either. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
