On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:52:58PM +0000, Peter Sergeant wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:48:48AM -0500, Alan DeKok wrote:
Such messages are forged spam. Nothing else. Is it really that
difficult for your local browser to copy the web page, and send it?
Or, to send a URL?
I realise people have wildly differing ideas of what constitutes spam,
but what definition fits an email that you have specifically requested
be sent to someone you know, on your behalf, most likely for
non-commerical reasons?
I don't really see how this is philosophically different from going to a
web-based email account, typing in a friend's email address, and sending
them a message - it's just that in the case of emailing someone an
article, someone else wrote the original content.
The difference is that the web-based email is not claiming that the mail
is _from_ an identity/entity which it has no claim to. It says 'From:
abc(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com'
The site offering 'send a friend this link' allows you to type in any
From address, and forges a message from you.
Since there is no technical way for the recipient to verify that you
authorized that message, there is no technical difference between it,
and simple forged spam.
Either the web site should produce an email that's easy for the end-user
to send, or the source address should belong to the source of the email
- the website.
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