From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gernot Hassenpflug Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] inundated by Swen / Gibe emails Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:37:04 +0900 Organization: RASC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1a61f7e5.0309240025.7a1feb33@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064418366 14083 80.91.224.253 (24 Sep 2003 15:46:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 24 17:46:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2Bq8-0001pj-00 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2Bq2-00037G-PI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:45:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h21.110.244.10.31184.vlan.kuins.net Original-X-Trace: caraway.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp 1064417831 17732 10.244.110.21 (24 Sep 2003 15:37:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Gernot Hassenpflug X-Jost-Rating: Gernot X-URL: http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/radar-group/members/~gernot X-Home-Page: http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/radar-group/members/gernot/index.html User-Agent: T-gnus/6.15.13 (based on Oort Gnus v0.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W2b3PgFK1N90ZTdfvYwmaDCbJAw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116837 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12763 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12763 Adam Hardy writes: > (2) somehow find a way of disguising my email address on the newsgroup > without stopping the listserver from mailing me the traffic. > > Any suggestions as to how to do 2 would be great. > > Also I'd appreciate confirmation from a couple more people that they > are getting this virus traffic due to the newsgroup. Here is confirmation. I subscribe to a number of rec, alt and sci groups: they all have the problem. No-one in my lab has been hit apart from me, and I am the only one using newsgroups. I have no Windows machine, although lots of other users have, so that more or less rules out address book stealing in MS software. BellSouth is a major culprit here apaprently, having someone infected on their net (judging from my spam headers). (2) If you use gnus, make a fake email address specific to the groups. Simplified example: (setq gnus-posting-styles ;; all styles '((".*" (address "gh@nospam.com") (signature-file "~/.signature") (name "Gernot Hassenpflug") ("X-Home-Page" (getenv "WWW_HOME")) (organization "RASC")) ((message-news-p) (signature-file "~/.sigs/sig.gnussig")) ("^alt.martial-arts.aikido" (organization "Takemusu Aikido Osaka") (signature-file "~/.sigs/sig.rma")) That should not affect a listserver subscription, since you would have subscribed with your real email, and the listserver would have confirmed that. If the listserver mails out digests with your email in them, or forwards them to a group with the email in them, that is an issue you should take up with the list manager: in the lists I subscribe to the addresses are removed and you can only get someone's address by forwarding an email to the other person through the list master. The other person can then reply directly by email. -- G Hassenpflug RASC, Kyoto University