[rhelv6-list] RH lists munging From: header

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list rhelv6-list at redhat.com
Thu Feb 21 18:16:33 UTC 2013


On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:38:33 -0500, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 \(Santiago\) discussion mailing-list wrote:

> There were several "bots" on the RH list, harvesting e-mail addresses 
> from senders to the list, and then sending rather inappropriate pictures 
> to those senders on the list from a huge inventory of e-mail addresses.  
> I believe that RH made the change at that time in order to stop this 
> behavior.  I know because I received those messages for quite some time!

That may work, but *your* address is still in the "Received" headers, jas at ...
so a more clever bot would still get your address from there.

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