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Re: [SLE] Identity usurpation in suse lists
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 14:32:56 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506031427440.13157@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Friday 2005-06-03 at 13:36 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

> Some little child who has just discovered how to fake email addresses, and
> things a) he's really cool, and b) he can't be traced.
>
> He's wrong on both counts

He is an engineer (!). But yes, we have traced him, of course. But
remember that the suse server removes the received headers, making it
harder to trace.

> > The list administrator does not answer us. Novell (contacted directly) is
> > doing nothing. SuSE does nothing. Who can do something?
>
> The list admin should. Who did you contact?

{list}-owner, as always. But others jumped over him, and went to contacts
higer up in Novell directly.

We are in dire straits, the list is becomming useless. We had 50 emails
this night of this person alone, insulting and suplanting people,

> > We need a list with login/password. Or a news forum, as Novell implements
> > in parallel to lists (support-forums.novell.com), but with autentification
> > procedure. Whatever.
>
> gpg signatures?

Yes, for those who can (like me). The problem is enforcing them, and
rejecting non signed emails at the server level...

- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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