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Re: at last: draft-levine-mass-batv-00

2004-09-07 06:58:31

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Michael Thomas wrote:

To the degree that you don't include original text, is the
degree that you are subject to cut and paste attacks.

BATV is not a message data verification system. It simply allows you to
link a bounce to an original message sent by you. It would suck if the
link is via a virus or a spammer, but experience suggests that this will
be very rare in practice because bounce addresses don't get out much.

And I think that things that don't include any of the text should be [...]

BATV is designed to work in the real world not an ideal world.

Tony.
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