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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] wierd spam
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:24:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <966dd5c2bca6066c32309e0f90aee2d1@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071126221404.GA21340@mero.morphisms.net>

now that you mention it, it's pretty obvious.
for some reason i was hung up on the fact that
one would think Message-ID: would be a clue that
this is not an email address.

- erik

On Mon Nov 26 17:20:31 EST 2007, jkw@eecs.harvard.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:08:55PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > does anyone know what the exploit here is?
> > some sort of outlook thing?
> 
> Probably some spammer mistaking message IDs like
> <5a07215f3e7e896f4b528a1838e78757@quanstro.net>
> for addresses.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-26 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-26 22:08 erik quanstrom
2007-11-26 22:14 ` William Josephson
2007-11-26 22:24   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-11-26 23:24   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-11-28  3:18 ` sqweek

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