At 8:09 AM -0700 3/30/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
tricks including "hash busters." The DMA will soon finish passing
laws in all major jurisdictions that criminalize header forgery as
the first step in saving "push advertising". (The other jurisdictions
can be blacklisted by IP address.)
How do those laws define header forgery? As discussed here,
legitimate header forgery is extremely common. Individuals forge
headers to point at their other email accounts. Companies forge
headers to point to addresses that deliberately bounce (particularly
email from their abuse auto-responders).
Is it okay to forge a From to an email account that I own?
Is it okay to forge a From to an email account that I own, even if I
know that it's going to be shut down for spamming as soon as those
two million messages I just sent out start bouncing?
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.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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