On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:13:25 +0100 Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tell that those people who post complaints to my e-mail address after > they had received Windows virus/worm based junk messages or SPAM with my > address in the "From" field. I would deactivate signatures again (and > return to my old posting-style) if more users knew how to read e-mail > headers and not blamed me after they had opened an .COM attachment in a > mail which includes my name. Some worms take an old mail from a folder > on the local disk and only append text or add a malicious attachment > before piping it out to arbitrary people in an addressbook. This makes > it look like it's a normal posting from me. Even if a signed message > were copied completely, a signature includes a timestamp of when the > signature was made. This makes it impossible to recycle old signed > messages. Hi Michael, Is there anybody left who doesn't understand that email can be spoofed? If there is, do these people understand that they should look for and validate a signature? Does this _really_ help you explain that the message didn't come from you? Do you have to explain it less often? Perhaps it does, but i find that notion surprising. > Another reason why I auto-sign my messages on public mailing-lists is > that I like to throw away e-mail addresses as soon as they are bombed > with SPAM. My current one is suprisingly spam-free, probably due to the > "nospam" in it. I'm missing the part where signing your message helps you change your email address ;o) > I disable signatures where recipients know when it's me and when it's > SPAM/virus/fake. Fair enough, my take is that it isn't appropriate on a public support mailing list, but it's not that big a deal either way. Cheers, Sean
