Subject: Re: Unwanted y2k spam..
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Alan C.Horn <ahorn@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/28/1998 13:13:21
Yess.. you're the second person to tell me what a complete maroon I've
been...
Note to self; don't approach technical issues when your body really just
wants sleep.. ;)
I'm irate that my parent domain behaves in such fashion towards From:
headers, but I'll work that one out.
Cheers,
Al
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, der Mouse wrote:
>> As a representative of dreamworks.com I would like to express my
>> apologies for the recent unsolicited commercial email to the
>> port-sparc netbsd mailing list purporting to come from the
>> dreamworks.com domain.
>
>Thank you for your reaction...but it's unnecessary; only people who get
>mail through dreamworks.com saw it as coming from dreamworks.com. I
>saw the From: header as Project.Manager@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA. Some
>MTAs - yours and mine among them, it appears - tack on their local
>domain when they see a From: header with no domain name in it.
>
>And it hit at least four NetBSD lists; I know 'cause I got eight
>copies, two each through port-sparc, port-alpha, port-m68k, and
>tech-userlevel.
>
>I've already fired off a complaint to the best addresses I could find.
>
> der Mouse
>
> mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
> 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
>
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