Please confirm (conf#3cf11a7145595546740c6064dbc27044)

Peter Jeremy peter.jeremy at alcatel.com.au
Sun Jun 29 23:10:59 PDT 2003


On 2003-Jun-29 22:55:29 -0700, Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com> wrote:
>Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>>David G. Lawrence used to be called David Greenman.  He's one of the
>>founders of the project.
>
>I do wish people who change their names would send notices.
>Did he get married?  ;-)

Yes.  It was mentioned on at least one of the FreeBSD lists.

>>The real issue here is that somebody has forged a message and sent it
>>to him.
>
>No, the real issue is that there are scads of virii/worms in the wild
>which forge message envelope senders.  It is absurd to send
>autoresponder messages to a mailing list.  It is a bad idea (tm)
>to send autoresponder messages upon receiving malware or spam.

It is not clear that the autoresponder message came from David.  Given
David's expertise, it's more likely that these were forged.

Peter


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