They didn't forge any addresses.

What they did was send out the spam with "From: Lisa" as the
header. Many of the local mail systems in the world are built to append
@local.dom.ain to anything they get in without an @. Thus, everyone
saw their own zone in final headers.

I've put in some spam filters. Hopefully "Lisa" will not be bothering
us further.

Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl> writes:

> On 22 Dec 2000 Lisa@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl wrote:
> > Date: 22 Dec 2000 17:53:48 +0200
> > From: Lisa@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl
> > To: port-arm32@netbsd.org
> > Subject: new game try it
> > 
> > 
> > click here[exposure.dll?263589]
> > 
> > To join new game for free
> > No charge
> 
> Looks like someone found a new way of forging addresses!!!!! ... I've
> allready posted a message with the full header to abuse@netbsd.org
> 
> This obvious spam has nothing to do with me, nor the university !
> 
> Cheers,
> Reinoud
> 
> 
> 

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