Guest guest Posted October 15, 2005 Report Posted October 15, 2005 I thought it was impossible to use somebody's else e-mail like that. But what I did hear was that sometimes individuals create usernames/email adresses very simmilar to legitatment ones.( i.e. only with one letter/character different) There is only minor differences. One of the message boards I am on was attacked like that a while ago. On 10/15/05, Susan <svoisin wrote: > > > please ban this jerk who keeps filling our inboxes > > with chicken and rabbit recipies > > This same person struck the list a few days ago. > S/he uses email addresses of legitimate list members to send all > those meat-containing messages. The people listed as sending them > are NOT responsible. > > Pat at handled it by putting all members on > moderation for the time being. For more information about what she > found out, the moderator of this list can email me or Pat off-list. > > Susan > > ------------- > Susan Voisin > www.fatfreevegan.com <http://www.fatfreevegan.com> > www.veganconnection.com <http://www.veganconnection.com> > ------------ > > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************************* > To post to list via e-mail: send e-mail to " Veg-Recipes " > To post to list via website: > Veg-Recipes/post > To contact List Owner: " Veg-Recipes-owner " > Subscribe or Un through site: > / > OR Un via e-mail: Veg-Recipes- > Calendar: Veg-Recipes/calendar > Bookmarks: Veg-Recipes/links > Photos: http://photos.Veg-Recipes/lst > Read or search old messages: > Veg-Recipes/messages > > **************************************************************************** > To purchase cookbooks via Amazon.com <http://Amazon.com>, > <A HREF= " > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=vegrecipes-20 & path=subst/home/hom\ e.html " ><img > src=gngrey120x60.gif border=0></A> > > Quote
Guest guest Posted October 16, 2005 Report Posted October 16, 2005 Veg-Recipes wrote: > I thought it was impossible to use somebody's else e-mail like that. As a gmail user (or even mail user) you should know how absolutely trivial it is to pretend to be a different e-mail address. I own the gorlitz.ca domain, but it doesn't run a mail server. Most of my personal messages appear to come from that domain however. Epicurous.dom makes it even more trivial. I went to the site's front page and searched for a tofu recipe. I found the most pupular is TOFU- AND WALNUT-STUFFED MUSHROOMS http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/230149 At the top of this recipe is an E-MAIL TO FRIEND button. I click that and get http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/email/230149 On this page I am on an honour system as it asks for Recipient's name 1 Recipient's email 1 Your name Your e-mail address One only has to fill out the group's e-mail address Recipient's email field and a valid e-mail address from a group member in the Your e-mail address field then hit send. The angry, childish person likely hit the back button after they sent it and sent it again and again--if they didn't you could add stupid to the list of adjectives desribing them. Instant untraceable SPAM. > But what I did hear was that sometimes individuals create > usernames/email adresses very simmilar to legitatment ones.( i.e. > only with one letter/character different) There is only minor > differences. One of the message boards I am on was attacked > like that a while ago. > > On 10/15/05, Susan <svoisin wrote: >> >>> please ban this jerk who keeps filling our inboxes >>> with chicken and rabbit recipies >> >> This same person struck the list a few days ago. >> S/he uses email addresses of legitimate list members to send all >> those meat-containing messages. The people listed as sending them >> are NOT responsible. >> >> Pat at handled it by putting all members on >> moderation for the time being. For more information about what she >> found out, the moderator of this list can email me or Pat off-list. >> >> Susan Quote
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2005 Report Posted October 17, 2005 For what it's worth, I've used the Epicurious online form to suggest they tighten down their system by preventing people from sending email unless they are a validated registered user. also let them know that a person of unknown name was sending meat based recipes to a veg recipe mailing list. Won't make a difference. But hey, it's worth a shot. Quote
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