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John R Levine writes:
You asked for an example. The point is, if mailing lists are that
trivially spoofable, it will become a much bigger problem.
It finally occurred to me why the entire issue of spoofed mail via lists
will never be a problem for mail recipients -- it's a problem that matters
to list managers, so it's one that they will solve if and when they need
to.
hmm. mozilla-general(_at_)mozilla(_dot_)org is a mailing list that was 99%
spam for
many *years*; non-subscriber posting was permitted right until the last
month, January of this year. take a look at the 1325 spams it received in
that month:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mozilla-general&r=1&b=200401&w=2
I hear the GNU lists were in a similar situation until about a year ago.
Given how easy it would be to have switched that to subscriber posting
only, I don't think your conclusion follows in all cases.
- --j.
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