At 9:46 AM -0700 3/14/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
I'd like to see definitions and to-be-determined ("TBD") words
something like these:
Good idea.
forged: envelope or header values involving forgery and that are
fraudulently intended to evade filters or confuse mail recipients.
Header or envelope forgery involves false and fraudulent TBD1.
What would you call it when spam software adds headers that make it
look like the message was sent by a particular email client?
filter: any mechanism that filters or rejects or discards mail
whether based on IP addresses, envelope values, header absence,
presence or values, words, punctuation, or other patterns in STMP
bodies, STMP authentication mechanims, time of day, or anything
else.
I'd replace "filters or rejects" with "categorizes or rejects" to
avoid the self-reference.
There's another kind of filter. One which, for lack of a better
term, looks for "lies in the headers". These can be forged routing
information, fake MUA headers or anything else that makes the message
different from real mail sent from a real user.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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