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From: Michael Renzmann <lartc@nospam.otaku42.de>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] question regarding spam and viruses
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 20:16:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42865C85.3080902@otaku42.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D8723E2-A4A9-4E89-80D1-7C71E83134F4@let.de>

Hi.

S. Krishnan wrote:
> OK, this is what is interesting.  The domain sentrisystems.com is
> registered to an organization located in New Orleans in the USA, while
> the email comes from a dialup host located on the India based Touchtel
> ISP network, as pointed out by Denys.

Wow, you just discovered the fact that e-mail addresses can be faked.

> Can't the listadmin just block this address?

Can't people just look into the archives for past discussions on this
topic? Can't people just put that address into their own blacklists?

Threads like this start to cause more traffic than the actual virus
mails themselves. And they are at least as annoying as those mails.

Bye, Mike

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-14 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-14 14:35 [LARTC] question regarding spam and viruses from Marc Manthey
2005-05-14 14:53 ` Denys
2005-05-14 18:11 ` S. Krishnan
2005-05-14 20:16 ` Michael Renzmann [this message]
2005-05-14 21:19 ` [LARTC] question regarding spam and viruses David Hough

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