FORGED EMAIL POSTED TO NANOG
Hi all- Someone is having fun tonight, getting 1010WINS, a local radio stations web site to send mail as me to nanog: Received: from mail.cbsig.net (mail32.nyc01.cbsig.net [63.240.57.32]) by segue.merit.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id 441835DD8F for <nanog@merit.edu>; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 7985 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2001 03:16:13 -0000 Received: from web145.nyc01.cbsig.net (63.240.56.145) by mail02.cbsig.net with SMTP; 26 Oct 2001 03:16:13 -0000 1010WINS is a CBS owned station, and as you can see this email came from cbsig.net, which is NOT me. Can the mailing list program be fooled by sending mail from a web program like this? Perhaps this should be looked at. Anyhow, I just wanted to mention I did NOT send this email. Reid Fishler Lightning.net
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Reid B. Fishler wrote:
1010WINS is a CBS owned station, and as you can see this email came from cbsig.net, which is NOT me.
no, it's the CBS Internet Group, according to Whois at Network Solutions.
Can the mailing list program be fooled by sending mail from a web program like this? Perhaps this should be looked at. Anyhow, I just wanted to mention I did NOT send this email.
The mailing list could be fooled quite easily, most likely, especially if it doesn't verify that the addresses given to it are given by the people who own them. -- JustThe.net LLC - Steve "Web Dude" Sobol, CTO - sjsobol@JustThe.net In another world it may be true that "Information wants to be free." Directory Assistance, or lack thereof, is a profit center here and now. - John Myers, speaking in comp.dcom.telecom
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Reid B. Fishler -
Steven J. Sobol