RE: [Xen-users] [OT] Spam in the list?

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, James Harper
> <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I got spam, offering replica watches, from this email account:
> >> www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> > If you are unsure, post the headers from the message you received,
I'm
> > sure that they will show that the spam has nothing to do with any
> > xensource servers.
> 
> I got the same email. Even if the sender was faked (which I'm not
> sure), it looks like the sender was a member of xen-users list (thus
> xensource server involved). So the next question is, what is the
> policy against this kind of messages? Can list admin remove the
> sender? Who is the list admin?
> 

Yes you are right, the spam was sent to the list which is not what I
thought you meant originally.

I'm pretty sure that I could send an email to the list and spoof your
email address as the sender, and the list wouldn't be able to tell the
difference... does the list do any other validation aside from email
address? (eg ip address?). There may not be much that can be done about
this unless it turns out a spammer did just subscribe to the list to
start spamming.

James

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