Date   : Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:53:24 +0100 (BST)
From   : hick.bbc@... (gARetH baBB)
Subject: test of bbc-micro-outgoing address was

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> Having access to the raw, unedited, unprocessed mail data from the
> server, if you can understand that concept, I can confirm that
> there has been NO, NONE, ZILCH, ZAP, ZIPPO spam sent from the
> mailing list.

The spam in question was delivered by 81.2.109.194, AKA 
rhubarb.cloud9.co.uk and all indications are that it was being sent to 
whatever bbc-micro-outgoing@ expanded to - as confirmed by some list 
member doing a test.

> I repeat what I said earlier. Just because you receive a message 
> **CLAIMING** to have been sent to bbc-micro-posting@... does 
> **NOT** in any way at *ALL* imply, infer, or mean that it has come 
> **FROM** bbc-micro-posting@... All it can possibly mean is 
> that that header line **SAYS** that it has been posted via that address.

Indeed, and I also run my own mail server and I know what connects to it 
and what is delivered.