Delist this person: petsupermarket

[Steffen Kluge]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 16:20 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> There is nothing the Fedora list can do to prevent
> petsupermarket.sspam at uol.com.br from sending email directly to you
> which is exactly what petsupermarket.sspam at uol.com.br is doing.

Well, there is one thing. The list is (needlessly IMO) publishing the
real email addresses of members along with their posts, by putting them
into the "From:" header. On a mailing list this serves no purpose (again
IMO). Replies to ML posts should go to the list, not the original
author.

Hence, if the list stopped including members addresses in posts, the
anti-spam scheme would stop working. Worst case, anti-spam challenges
would be sent to the list address, where they can be summarily dropped.

If there is some requirement I fail to see for having members' addresses
included in posts, then those should be obfuscated.

For example, the "From:" header in this post could be changed from
"Steffen Kluge <kluge at fujitsu.com.au>" to:

"Steffen Kluge" or
"Steffen Kluge <kluge at fujitsu.com.au.invalid>" or
"Steffen Kluge <kluge at fujitsu.com.au>"

All of this would stop a stupid misguided mechanism from annoying the
hell out of a lot of people. It would also curb the irritating habit of
some members to Cc: the author on replies.

If the address got deliberately de-obfuscated by UOL then this would be
proof of malicious spamming.

Cheers
Steffen.