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Re: [SLE] Identity usurpation in suse lists
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:36:36 +0200
  • Message-id: <200506031336.36963.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Friday 03 June 2005 13:01, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a big problem in the Spanish SuSE list.
>
> There is a poster, probably certified mad (Tourette syndrome), that has
> taken to insult people as he pleases. But the worst is that he is emailing
> with the from address replaced by any other person of the list (me, for
> example), confusing the innocent people that are not aware of this. I'm
> talking about 50 messages of this kind per day, more than the normal
> traffic.

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

>
> 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?

> 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?


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