| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:06:11 -0400 |
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:36:24PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > What you are saying makes perfect sense to me. Unfortuately, not > everyone receiving mail not-really-from-me has any level of > sophistication. It's safe to ignore them unless they're people who directly inluence your life. Even the example from slashdot today could have been ignored until any legal papers were actually fired (and any lawyer worth a fraction of what he was being paid would have laughed that case out of his office). If they are people who directly influence your life, it's worth sitting down and explaining things clearly and politely. > While no one can PROVE that it was sent by me (since it wasn't), I am > concerned about those who might react -- in whatever way -- believing > that it was me. Ultimately, I'm vindicated, but with what intervening > hassle and inconvenience. That's why I'd like to stop it if I can. There really isn't much you can do. Your email address is just a random string of charcters on which the only limiting factors are the character set (specific characters are excluded from email usernames and other specific characters excluded from valid domain names by IETF standards), that there must be an @ symbol somewhere in it (for Internet email; is anyone still getting UUCP mail?), and that the bit after the last . must be a valid top level domain (where valid doesn't really mean Internic-recognized, just resolvable through DNS using the servers your host knows about). Anyone can type that random string of characters, which is why you should NEVER suggest that it's ANY kind of identification of you. I don't care where you get email (or any form of data) that appears to be from me; unless it's signed by either OpenPGP key ID 0x0cf9091a or 0x064c199b (barring the unlikely event of a collision in those bytes), it's not me. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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