Re: Is massive spam coming from me on python lists?

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2008-04-21 08:01, Brian Vanderburg II wrote:

I've recently gotten more than too many spam messages and all say
Sender: py**********************************@python.org. I'm wondering
if my mail list registration is now being used to spam myself and
others. If so, sorry, but I'm not the one sending messages if other are
getting them even though Sender seems to include my address (I'm not
sure about mail headers so I don't know how From: is different than
Sender:) Anyway, it seems to be a bunch of spam emails about cracks and
stuff.

Brian Vanderburg II

That is just mailman (the mailing list software) keeping track of
things. If there were a bounce, mailman can determine from the address
of the bounce message (the bounce gets sent back to the Sender, not the
From) which address bounced.

So *all* python-list messages you get have that Sender.

In other words, these spams do not come from you.

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Sjoerd Mullender

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Sjoerd Mullender writes:

On 2008-04-21 08:01, Brian Vanderburg II wrote:

>I've recently gotten more than too many spam messages and all say
Sender: py**********************************@python.org. [...]

That is just mailman (the mailing list software) keeping track of
things.

By the way, why does mailman change the Message-IDs when tunneling
postings to the newsgroup? This destroys the thread structure.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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[Sjoerd Mullender]

Torsten Bronger wrote:

Hallöchen!

Sjoerd Mullender writes:

>On 2008-04-21 08:01, Brian Vanderburg II wrote:

>>I've recently gotten more than too many spam messages and all say
Sender: py**********************************@python.org. [...]

That is just mailman (the mailing list software) keeping track of
things.

By the way, why does mailman change the Message-IDs when tunneling
postings to the newsgroup? This destroys the thread structure.

I have no idea. There is no setting in the mailman administration
interface that I can see that influences this.

Perhaps submit this as a bugreport to mailman?

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Sjoerd Mullender
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