Re: [LUG] spammers abusing From:

["Roger Bowden" <creekfella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All
The original GMail email was genuine and sent from me but the 'LUG list' was certainly *NOT* the addressee!   The posting on the LUG list was a great surprise to me!
As a LUG newbie I would like to know more about the GnuPG signatures referred to.   Can someone point me to a ref source please?
Sorry for the SPAM problem if I caused it.
Roger

On 09/12/2007, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:50:34 +0000
Neil Stone < neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> creekfella@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >  >From creekfella
> >
>
> Well, I hope this one's been killed already ??

The From: address is not necessarily accurate - now if everyone used
GnuPG signatures and the mailserver could be configured to only allow
sigs in the DCGLUG keyring . . . .

IMHO, there is every chance that gmail is being targetted by spammers
as a "friendly" From alias just like hotmail and msn before it.

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