Re: Mandatory From field, anonymity, and hacks

In <I2BuKy(_dot_)85p(_at_)clerew(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> "Charles Lindsey" 
<chl(_at_)clerew(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> writes:

> But none of these is of any use to the man who wants to include a mailbox
> of some sort (to distinguish him from all the other Joe Does), or who even
> want to hide his real mail address inside the bogus one in a form that a
> human can easily disentangle.
> Both these practices are already widespread, and they are not going to
> stop just because we say so.
And to see why they are so widespread, look at the following FAQ which is
published regularly on news.admin.net-abuse.email and other places.

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