Re: Hacked?

[Chip Old <fold @ bcpl . net>]

Hello Guy,

You haven't been hacked.  That is the standard response by the "resend"
script to a message without a valid sender.  You'll find it in the "sub
check_sender" subroutine in the resend script, at about line 988.

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Noce, Guy wrote to 'majordomo-users@greatcircle.com':

> Hello to all.  This is a weird message that's started coming back to
> all the closed lists on campus.  I'm not unconvinced that the someone
> has hacked our server, but it's a UNIX machine, and I'm from VMS.  
> Thanks for all help, and private e-mail is okay.
> 
> Return-Path: 
>                         <testing-l-request@mail2.towson.edu>
>                
>  X-Authentication-Warning: 
>                         mail2.towson.edu: majordom set sender to
>                         testing-l-request@lists.towson.edu using -f
>                      To: 
>                         testing-l-approval@mail2.towson.edu
>                  Subject: 
>                         BOUNCE testing-l@lists.towson.edu: This may be
>                         hard to believe, but there was no "From:" fieldin
>                         this message I just received. I'm not gonna send it
>                         out, but you can...
>                   Status: 

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