29 Jan
2004
29 Jan
'04
7:35 p.m.
Jim Burwell wrote:
It's a good idea in general to prohibit outside
posts. But this won't
stop the bogus worm-containing messages being sent out with fake "From:
" addresses which are addressed as coming from the list, you, or even
me. These worms gather email addresses from received emails, inboxes,
etc, etc, and use valid "From: " addresses to masquerade as anyone they
want.
True, but some worms use the e-mail address list of the victim and use
those addresses as "from-address". Therefore keeping unsubscribed users
out of the list would still help keeping the "trash" level of the list
low.
-- Arnd