On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:39:19PM -0500, Barry Shein wrote:
Anyhow, WHAT'S THE HARM?
I mean what's your standard here, that there cannot exist a single
case in the universe where this information might be unreliable?
There's no real harm, but there's no real benefit either. The same
people who have ignored warnings not to click on everything that's
shiny will ignore this warning too.
And spammers, well, spammers have long since demonstrated that they'll
innovate when something becomes sufficiently widely adopted to make it
worth their trouble. So if this tactic was tried by only one ISP --
maybe not. But if it was picked up a dozen major ones and included
in several significant MTAs or something like that, then it'd probably
be on their radar as worth dealing with.
---Rsk
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