Junk mail through Cygnus?

Bill Klein bk@cheerful.com
Sun Jun 1 19:13:00 GMT 1997


James wrote:
>Have other subscribers to the mailing list gotten this letter?  Is Cygnus
>passing out the email addresses of the subscribers to this mailing list or
>did this a8@mary-world.com get the addresses some other way?  If it's not
>going through Cygnus, why did it have the standard Cygnus footer? 
>
>Any enlightenment would be appreciated from other members of the mailing
>list or from Cygnus itself. 

I got it too... The "TO:" field was not to the
list, so I assume that the person BCCed it to
this list... In case someone is interested, here
is the message header:



Received: from bretweir.total.net (bretweir.total.net [205.236.175.106])
	by toolbox.total.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA25264
	for <bklein@toolbox.total.net>; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 06:39:17 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from scipio.globecomm.net (scipio.globecomm.net [207.51.48.12])
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	for <bklein@total.net>; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 06:39:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Received: (from daemon@localhost)
	by cygnus.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA00439
	for gnu-win32-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jun 1997 01:31:45 -0700 (PDT)
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From: a8@mary-world.com
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 97 00:28:20 EST
To: Friend@public.com
Subject: New
Message-ID: <>
Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Precedence: bulk
Content-Type: text
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