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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:11:20 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Email Mangling
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:12:29AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote:
>>Looking at the headers for a message I sent recently (id 89248) I see
>>that my email address was not mutilated in the Received: field.  If one
>>uses SBC Yahoo's smtp server he has his email address as username.
>>
>>If this is a very isolated incident then maybe nobody should bother.
>>If not maybe it should.  I personally no longer care, I changed the
>>smtp server, just wanted to point this out (don't know if this subject
>>already discussed, too many hits for sbc yahoo if googling the
>>archive).
>
>Since the raw text is generated by a CGI script, steps could be taken
>to block spam harvesters from even seeing it...  OTOH, it might be
>easier to just run the substitution on the Received: header...

Since 89248 is not a URL, I am not sure what we're talking about here.
I looked at a couple of messages and don't see anything other than
cygwin AT cygwin DOT com in the received lines, which sort of makes sense.

cgf

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