[tor-relays] Jerk spammers on tor-relays

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Sat Sep 22 03:45:33 UTC 2018


On 09/21/2018 08:32 PM, Dave Warren wrote:
> On 2018-09-21 08:57, Ralph Seichter wrote:
>> On 21.09.18 16:40, Dave Warren wrote:
>>
>>> It would be fantastic if the list operators were to track this down
>>> and kill it off.
>> Imagine an address A subscribed to this mailing list in a read-only
>> fashion (a.k.a. "lurker"). A uses list posts as triggers to send spam
>> from address B, which does not even need to be subscribed. How would
>> the list admins ever be able to connect A to B?
> 
> Send a message through the list's outbound SMTP server that looks like a
> list message, but comes from <bob-$identifier at some-domain.example> where
> $identifier is unique to each post.
> 
> Then wait a bit and see what address receives spam, determine which
> address received the message and deal with it.

That's a bit creepy, no?

It's come up before around this issue, as I recall.


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