[Alpine-info] Sender and X-X-Sender

James Pittman lists at jamescharles.eu
Thu Jan 10 18:13:45 PST 2008


Is it possible to have an option to seperately disable Sender and
X-X-Sender for newsgroups, and that such an option be set to disabled by
default?

As I am sure we all know, usenet is an infamous harvesting spot for
spambots collecting addresses and it wouldn't suprise me if the more
sophisticated bots are capable, or may one day become capable, of taking
addresses from the more exotic header fields such as these.

Those of us with any sense include fake To: and Reply-To: fields in
usenet messages for this very reason, but it may be easy to forget
Sender: and X-X-Sender: when taking these precautions.

James


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