On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:03:08AM -0600, Mark Blunier wrote: > Previously Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:00:07PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > > I did not spam the debian lists. Please, listmaster, find out who is > > > putting my address on their spams and unsubscribe them. > > > > Please have a more careful look at the mail headers. > > > > (a) Nobody put your address on their spam; there was just no From: > > line, so something in your mail setup caused it to appear as if it > > was from you. > > Most of my emails from the list do have a From: line, and they list > the senders name. The 'spam' email that was sent also had a From: > email line, but it had the 'bounce-debian-user=...' stuff that is > normally in the 'From' line.
The main list archives, at least, don't show any 'From:' line on the spam that started this thread. The 'From' line is synthesized in Berkeley mbox (and similar mailbox formats) from the SMTP envelope sender. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
