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Re: Changing my email address

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jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:

> Le 17/03/2015 22:31, James Kuyper a écrit :
>> One affect of this change is that you've bypassed by filters, so I
>> happened to see this message.
>
> Sorry :-)
>
> You are right actually. They can spoof the "From" field, since they
> have a machine that can inject ANY message into the USENET stream.

Allow me to add my name to those offering sympathy.  It's very
depressing, but this this is the world we live in.  People are often
jerks.

> What is distressing is that there is no defence against it. At least
> within USENET/Internet configuration.

There's no obvious way to stop it, but you can discourage it by making
your posts harder to forge.  The last time there was a spate of
forgeries here, I started adding a header to my posts that can be
checked by a simple script on a web site.  The effect is that, were it
ever to matter, anybody can be reasonably sure that a post seemingly
from me was written by the person who owns bsb.me.uk.  You could do the
same for any domain you control that can run PHP.

I would be happy to share the details (indeed the code) if this would be
of any help, though I can image it might seem like overkill.

-- 
Ben.

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Changing my email address jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-03-17 22:00 +0100
  Re: Changing my email address James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-17 17:31 -0400
    Re: Changing my email address jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-03-17 23:12 +0100
      Re: Changing my email address Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-03-18 01:30 +0000
        Re: Changing my email address Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2015-03-19 10:47 +0100
          Re: Changing my email address Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-03-19 15:12 +0000
      Re: Changing my email address Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-03-17 23:16 -0400
        Re: Changing my email address asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-03-18 00:18 -0700
        Re: Changing my email address Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-03-18 09:57 -0400
          Re: Changing my email address Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-03-18 22:57 -0400
          Re: Changing my email address Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2015-03-19 10:55 +0100
  Re: Changing my email address Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-24 12:00 -0700

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