On Aug 29 2004, Bruce Lilly wrote:
Why on Earth any sane person would set From to a non-
working address with no Reply-To field is beyond
comprehension. (Well, perhaps no *sane* person would...)
I'm aware of at least one "antispam solution" which works on
this kind of principle, if I understand your meaning.
This was presented at a past MIT spam conference, the commercial
web page is here: http://www.titankey.com/productInfo/howItWorks/default.htm
The idea is that instead of a single mail address, people own an
unlimited supply of disposable addresses, with time limits etc. I
presume these people will also set their From and Reply-To fields
accordingly for each email conversation and recipient, otherwise there
would be no point. It "stops spam" because you simply turn off the mail
address with the press of a button and the SMTP server will reject
messages at the gate. That's the rough idea I believe.
So in answer to your question, the sane person might be a customer using
such a system.
--
Laird Breyer.