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Subject: Re: Spamela & Erson, Inc
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, A Sun Netscape Alliance
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 20:48:21 -0500
To: "St - Musaic.Net" <st . einar @ musaic . net>
Cc: Mojo Working <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
References: <006601bfb9eb$fd9de5e0$81764382@st>

I believe using the "reply_to = $LIST" setting will help this.  Be worried 
though, that if this address gets in a spammer's hands that you have road
blocks in place so they can not post to your list directly or indirectly.
This setting will replace any reply-to: already in the headers with the
address of the list.  It doesn't do anything with the From: headers though.
Even purge_received cannot help you there.

Dan Liston

"St - Musaic.Net" wrote:
> 
>   Hi!
> 
>   Is there any way to have Majordomo to hide the posters address when sending
>   to a list? I have clear evidences that some of the very established "Free
>   Email Address Here" ISP's use some kind of email extractors on all incoming
>   and outgoing mail - thus, when a member post from me@isp1.com, he or she
>   might soon find their address spammed if ISP2.COM had a 'candid camera'
>   directed to incoming mail of me@isp2.com
> 
>   One scum company which uses this scheme is http://www.aggies.com They post
>   with bogus Compuserve addresses, but love to see the replies sent to
>   addresses @aggies.com (which abuse@aggies.com never will close...) (btw,
>   I know how to read headers... ;)
> 
>   I set up an address with just one purpose: To see whether it was extracted.
>   I sent email to a bogus @aggies.org address - and lo and behold! Some days
>   later, the address received a nice "Turn your e-mail into a virtual cash
>   register!" spam. Well, before I get carried on... Is there any way to have
>   Majordomo to hide the posters address when sending to a list? I do consider
>   to set subscribe_policy to closed, so that I can investigate when users
>   with addresses like bob@webopportunity.net or betty@targetshop.com wants
>   to be added to a list...
> 
> / St


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