Header forging is one method spammers use to hide their identity, but
they don't care a lot whose header they use. Sure, to some extent
these psychopaths tend to be drawn towards sticking xyz(_at_)bighost(_dot_)com
because why not?
But if that were made even slightly difficult they'd just use
xyz(_at_)anyhost(_dot_)com(_dot_)
They don't care, or not a lot. Sticking bighost.com in their header is
not very important to what they're trying to do, it's just another
annoying way they try to get you to look at their email.
I'm also wondering why this is better than signing envelope info with
something like PGP? Wouldn't the latter remove the need for the
real-time backtalk?
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