Re: a paypal email with a pari userlist message

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Apr 3, 2006, at 17:14 , cino hilliard wrote:

> I received this junk mail today. Somehow my message to this forum  
> got spammed or into
> malicious hands. How is PayPal involved with the pari list?

This is a "known problem".  I am guessing here, but I believe that  
some clever soul has created a junk address, and has set up  
forwarding from that address to paypal, amazon, and  ebay (at least,  
when I post, that's who responds...).

I've sent mail to the list maintainer, but have received nothing in  
reply, so I assume this doesn't bother him.

A way to fix this is to tag each message sent from the list handler  
with the name to which it was sent (as is done, e.g., on Apple's  
mailing lists).  That way, we could tell which address is bogus.   
That requires (presumably) changes to the list software handling the  
pari lists.

In the meantime, think of it as the cost of doing business :-}

Regards,

Justin

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