[rhelv6-list] RH lists munging From: header

[Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
(Santiago) discussion mailing-list <rhelv6-list at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 21 February 2013 18:16, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion
> mailing-list <rhelv6-list at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:38:33 -0500, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
>> \(Santiago\) discussion mailing-list wrote:
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>> > There were several "bots" on the RH list, harvesting e-mail addresses
>> > from senders to the list, and then sending rather inappropriate pictures
>> > to those senders on the list from a huge inventory of e-mail addresses.
>> > I believe that RH made the change at that time in order to stop this
>> > behavior.  I know because I received those messages for quite some time!
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>> That may work, but *your* address is still in the "Received" headers,
>> jas at ...
>> so a more clever bot would still get your address from there.
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> I've had addresses harvested from all over the place, not just the From:
> header.   The more amusing ones are MIME boundaries and message-ids.
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> I notice that the list is still marking everything as from itself rather
> than the author and with the announcement of 6.4 this has changed from a
> "meh" to a real annoyance.
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> Can we have the normal behaviour back please and let the harvesters get on
> with culling messages from the archives like they always do.
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> jch

I totally agree. Right now, I have no idea who is posting, and there
is no way to respond to the poster personally when that is a desirable
action.

(no name here)