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Re: [LUG] spammers abusing From:

 

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:50:34 +0000
Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> creekfella@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> >  >From creekfella
> > 
> 
> Well, I hope this one's been killed already ??

The From: address is not necessarily accurate - now if everyone used
GnuPG signatures and the mailserver could be configured to only allow
sigs in the DCGLUG keyring . . . . 

IMHO, there is every chance that gmail is being targetted by spammers
as a "friendly" From alias just like hotmail and msn before it.

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