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SubjectRe: Fake emails from "Linus"
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Just a heads-up: somebody is sending out fake emails that claim to be from
> me, and that have me endorsing the Java client for Seti@Home.
>
> The reason I know somebody is faking emails is that I got a bounce from
> one of them.

How about using a little nice PGP or S/MIME signature :-)

I was sure that sooner or later it was going to happen.

I know that some people does not like it because it adds some
lines to e-mail messages (I myself have received hate e-mails
sometimes...) but the overhead is negligible and the efect is that
everybody knows that it is going to be much (orders of magnitude)
difficult to impersonate you.begin:vcard
n:Galan Moreno;Manuel
x-mozilla-html:TRUE
org:E.T.S. de Arquitectura (ULPGC);Matematicas
adr:;;;;;;
version:2.1
email;internet:manolow@step.es
x-mozilla-cpt:;1056
fn:Manuel Galan Moreno
end:vcard
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