Very funny: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies
If anyone hasn't figured it out yet, I didn't send this crap to the list... - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
On Sep 7, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
If anyone hasn't figured it out yet, I didn't send this crap to the list...
No, actually, I thought you had just gone insane. =) Relevant headers from original post (if they can be trusted): Received: from s48.tribuneinteractive.com (s48.tribuneinteractive.com [12.130.90.15]) by fiji.merit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB831841 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 01:16:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from s75 (s75.rc.trb [192.168.120.63]) by s48.tribuneinteractive.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j875GQHd000357 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9904510.1126070186588.JavaMail.turbine@s75> Perhaps someone "in authority" can track and kill, er, ban this luser? -- TTFN, patrick
"Patrick" == Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> writes:
Patrick> Perhaps someone "in authority" can track and kill, er, ban Patrick> this luser? Which luser? The one who first thought it would be a good idea for newspaper sites to have a "mail this article to someone" feature that forges the sender address with no attempt to verify that the person making the request has the right to use that address? -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com
On Sep 7, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
"Patrick" == Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> writes:
Patrick> Perhaps someone "in authority" can track and kill, er, ban Patrick> this luser?
Which luser? The one who first thought it would be a good idea for newspaper sites to have a "mail this article to someone" feature that forges the sender address with no attempt to verify that the person making the request has the right to use that address?
I had no idea it was a web site "mail this to a friend" thing. Just figured it was someone at that company. Sorry for the noise. -- TTFN, patrick
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Perhaps someone "in authority" can track and kill, er, ban this luser?
The challenge with this is doing a traceback of the requesting IP that requested the article to be sent. Best practice would be to include the requesting IP (i.e. the one which does the HTTP request) in the dispatched mail as an X-header. Mike
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