Subject: Re: R;7"LlOBS& (fwd)

From: Bret Busby <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:55:59 +0800 (WST)

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Josh Larios wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Josh Larios <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: R;7"LlOBS& (fwd)
> 
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> > This appears to be an issue not of spam (what's spam got to do with the
> > message, anyway?), but of the list administrator (NOTE: the message that
> > was non-compliant, shows as gaving been sent by the LIST ADMINISTRATOR!)
> 
> The message in question has these lines right above the lines you're
> reading as saying the list administrator personally sent the message:
> 
> Received: from jindi2 ([61.149.16.188]) by mx1.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with SMTP id g7S95606008610 for <[email-masked]>; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 02:05:08 -0700
> Received: (qmail 30113 invoked by uid 0); 26 Aug 2002 03:19:42 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO relay) ([email-masked]@192.168.0.10) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Aug 2002 03:19:42 -0000
> Message-Id: <[email-masked]>
> 
> That's a pretty clear sign that the list administrator did not personally
> sit down and compose that message--someone at 61.149.16.188 did. That IP
> belongs to the CHINANET Beijing province network. I'm pretty sure the
> list administrator isn't working from there.
> 
> The reasason the list admin address shows up in the From and Sender
> headers is that the original message had no such headers, and the smtp
> server or mailing list software filled them in.
> 
> Agreed, listproc and sendmail probably shouldn't be accepting messages
> with 8-bit characters in the subject lines. But this isn't a problem with
> the list administrator, as you claim.
> 
> --
> Josh Larios                   Computing & Communications Client Services
> University of Washington      Box 352830, Mary Gates Hall 011A
> [email-masked]   Seattle, WA 98195-2830
> 
> 

Thank you for that.

That is the fiirst constructive response to my concerns.

Now, could the list administrator please do something to fix the 
problem?

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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