On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:25 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:15:27PM -0700, ben wrote: > > while his response to the situation was obviously ridiculous, if this > > statement above is true, it seems that there's some kinda bug in the list > > management. something similar happened in debian-kde just recently. in > > the interest of preventing anymore of the same in the future, anybody > > want to offer conjecture on how this could happen? > > There was some discussion about it on IRC, and somebody pointed out that > toughguy.net is an e-mail forwarding service. If that's the case, then > it's possible to point the forwarder at yourself, subscribe to a few > mailing lists, and then maliciously alter the forwarding address. > > It's not clear what can be done about this at Debian's end other than to > encourage people to post full headers whenever anything goes wrong.
does this mean any cretin with a grudge could bring the web to a painfully slow grind at will? it seems like a massive flaw in the greater system. with today's event in mind, and apart from forwarding headers to the listmaster and abuse@<domain of origin>, is there anything else that can be done? any other means of redress or complaint? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
