Re: UseNet Gateway Design

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
28 May 1997 21:48:22 +0200


In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.970528114606.24213A-100000@miriam.fuller.edu>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> wrote:
>Here is a test message to show how message will look like after passing
>through the gateway:
>
>Path: miriam.fuller.edu!gateway
>From: spam-registration@news.fuller.edu (No E-mail please)
>Newsgroups: linux.test
>Subject: test
>Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970528112346.29574A-100000@waterf.org>
>Date: 28 May 97 18:23:51 GMT
>Sender: spam-registration@news.fuller.edu
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>Lines: 5
>Xref: miriam.fuller.edu linux.test:10

Hmm would it be too hard to:

a. leave the full name in
b. change the email address to
[base64 real email address encoded]-linux-test@news.fuller.edu

If an email then comes to that address, and it's a Reply: to an
earlier message (check References: and/or Re: in subject line) forward
the email to the real sender. Otherwise it's spam.

I'm considering doing this for my own usenet messages.

Mike.

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