Re: [OFFTOPIC] Spamcop

[John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:47:54PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

>    In the for what it is worth department, I got mail from "esr@thyrus.org"
>    with a subject of "cool game" or something like that, and it was obviously
>    forged.  It's interesting that they are getting smart enough to make it look
>    like it comes from someone that you've communicated with in the past.  Sigh.
> 
> There is someone basically forging email from anyone prominent
> in the opensource community.  I've even got these forges myself
> addressed as from myself which is even more amusing :-)
> 
> So I think rather it is this clown instead of someone figuring out
> who you've had email with recently.

[lk trimmed]

I really think it's more likely to be Klez or variant. I get a variety
of such forced emails. And given some of the angry out-of-the-blue
emails I get, and since I don't exactly count as prominent, it's not
some weirdo doing it by hand for some reason, unless he's /really/
diligent ;)

regards
john

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