At 7:14 PM -0600 7/8/03, Art Pollard wrote:
One of the big issues when it comes to spam is tracing where the
message has originated from. Of course, this is complicated when
people forge headers to try to obfuscate the origin of the e-mail.
While in theory this could be an issue, in practice it does not tend
to be. Most Received: forgeries are quite easy to detect if you
probe the network to verify them. In addition, we see far less of
those than we see open-relay and open-proxy spam. And in both those
cases the path would presumably be signed just fine. And even if the
message comes in legitimately, the fact that it's signed by (for
example) 163.net still doesn't tell me if it's spam or mail from one
of their legit users.
--
Kee Hinckley
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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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