Real mail addresses in list postings and resulting **SPAM**

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Sep 25 06:39:52 UTC 2009


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 17:02:28 -0500,
  Allen Kistler <an037-ooai8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > Christoph Frieben wrote:
> >> Does anybody have a good idea how to avoid the appearance of real mail
> >> addresses in the body of postings to fedora-devel/test-list when people
> >> reply to an earlier message? Could additional technical measures be taken to
> > 
> > Yes. Don't include your real address in your from header.
> 
> You have to include a real address, otherwise the list kicks it back and
> won't post it.  Only subscribed members can post.

Nope. The list checks the envelope sender address, not what's in the From
header.




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