From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Bypassing the mailing list name restriction
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000821235628.A16962@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000821203204.A29552@shell17.ba.best.com>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 08:32:04PM -0700, Jason Molenda wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:17:31PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
>> This isn't a spammer. It's actually a user. He is using hotpop.com to
>> forward email to the cygwin mailing list because his real ISP is blocked.
>
>Oh.
>
>> He probably stumbled across this usage as a way around his problem but
>> it is causing problems for other mailing list users.
>
>I bet his envelope From_ addr is "cygwin@hotpop.com". If you looked
>at one of his messages in the ezmlm archive
>(/qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin/archive/NNN/NN), there's probably a header
>which shows his From_ addr.
>
>Once you've got that, you can just add it to the list of blacklisted users.
>
>Or, as you noted, you could just ask him to stop. :-)
Since he is one of my few cygwin contributors, I think I'll try the polite route
first. :-)
cgf
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID
From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Bypassing the mailing list name restriction
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000821235628.A16962@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000821205700.6SJxfSxP6RORV-Y5EHIQKj1BRP_HAL4QQ2SGdj5Im40@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000821203204.A29552@shell17.ba.best.com>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 08:32:04PM -0700, Jason Molenda wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:17:31PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
>> This isn't a spammer. It's actually a user. He is using hotpop.com to
>> forward email to the cygwin mailing list because his real ISP is blocked.
>
>Oh.
>
>> He probably stumbled across this usage as a way around his problem but
>> it is causing problems for other mailing list users.
>
>I bet his envelope From_ addr is "cygwin@hotpop.com". If you looked
>at one of his messages in the ezmlm archive
>(/qmail/lists-sourceware/cygwin/archive/NNN/NN), there's probably a header
>which shows his From_ addr.
>
>Once you've got that, you can just add it to the list of blacklisted users.
>
>Or, as you noted, you could just ask him to stop. :-)
Since he is one of my few cygwin contributors, I think I'll try the polite route
first. :-)
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-30 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-30 6:08 Chris Faylor
2000-08-21 15:03 ` Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-08-21 15:26 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Jason Molenda
2000-08-21 15:45 ` Jason Molenda
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Chris Faylor
2000-08-21 20:18 ` Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Jason Molenda
2000-08-21 20:32 ` Jason Molenda
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
2000-08-21 20:57 ` Chris Faylor
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