Re: [Asrg] request for review for a non FUSSP proposal

Ian Eiloart <iane@sussex.ac.uk> Fri, 26 June 2009 10:18 UTC

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--On 24 June 2009 17:20:51 +0000 Claudio Telmon <claudio@telmon.org> wrote:

>
>> > Well, you submited my message to spamcop... ;-). Their address was in
>> > the list of recipients...
>>
>> Sorry - was using my mail client's autocomplete to check the format.
>> Forgot  to delete the address <blush>. Actually, the report isn't
>> complete until I  confirm it, and spamcop probably won't be able to
>> parse the report because  my message to them didn't include your message
>> headers.
>>
>> Hmm, maybe some address harvester will harvest that address and start
>> spamming spamcop directly, cutting me out of the loop! Perhaps I'd
>> better  try to change the address.
>>
>
> This is a joke you made me, isn't it? :)  Spamcop is using address
> tagging, and you happened to demonstrate what I said about the risks that
> tags get disclosed when sending messages to multiple recipients, since
> addresses may be in many places in the body of the message, whereas a
> specific header could be detected and purged by the MUA/MTA...
>

A fair point. Some of the same considerations apply, though, especially 
with regard to obtaining the token.

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Ian Eiloart
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