Re: bug-gnu-utils and spam

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: 25 Oct 2003 17:21:14 -0700
> 
> > (There is a theoretical chance of spam being forged as coming from
> > them and thus getting onto the list, but (a) that's never happened
> > to me
> 
> It has happened to me on other lists.  (The email was forged as being
> from me.)

Same here.

> Apparently this is a well-known spammer trick.

Actually, this mostly happens due to viruses, not human spammers.  A
virus scans the address book and the sent-mail folder on the infected
machine, and uses the addresses it finds there to forge the From
header.