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Re: Email Mangling


http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00245.html
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/get-raw-msg?listname=cygwin&date=2004-03&msgid=Pine.CYG.4.58.0403041424140.812%40lap

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:12:29AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote:
> >>Looking at the headers for a message I sent recently (id 89248) I see
> >>that my email address was not mutilated in the Received: field.  If one
> >>uses SBC Yahoo's smtp server he has his email address as username.
> >>
> >>If this is a very isolated incident then maybe nobody should bother.
> >>If not maybe it should.  I personally no longer care, I changed the
> >>smtp server, just wanted to point this out (don't know if this subject
> >>already discussed, too many hits for sbc yahoo if googling the
> >>archive).
> >
> >Since the raw text is generated by a CGI script, steps could be taken
> >to block spam harvesters from even seeing it...  OTOH, it might be
> >easier to just run the substitution on the Received: header...
>
> Since 89248 is not a URL, I am not sure what we're talking about here.
> I looked at a couple of messages and don't see anything other than
> cygwin@cygwin.com in the received lines, which sort of makes sense.
>
> cgf

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