On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, R. Peter Ejtel wrote:
> It seems the individual responsible for the Spambully challenges has come
> forth. Unfortunately the challenges were being issued due to their
> misunderstanding between how our list sends the from address on posts.
If those messages were truly from the spambully C/R system, spambully is
very flawed and should be shut done until the flaws have been corrected.
In my opinion one of the main features of a C/R system is to *not* send a
C/R to a mailing list posting. Generally this is handled by filtering
based on the "Precedence: bulk" header.
Next, as was pointed out, the C/R system was *randomly* forging the
origination host name and the from address on the C/R messages. This made
the messages appear to be from the mailing list *or* from individual users
on the list. As a matter of fact, a few months ago, Elliot Noss received
one of those spambully C/R messages that claimed to be from *me*. If I
remember correctly, forging mail headers is illegal in many parts of the
world.
Finally, the spambully C/R system incorrectly assumes the recipient of
the challenge has access to a graphical web browser. I know of hundreds
if not thousands of people who read their e-mail via text-only devices
(blackberries, PDAs, cell phones, etc.)
Spambully is one of the C/R systems giving C/R a bad name.
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