From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot(_at_)dotat(_dot_)at]
That's pretty worthless. What we need is a method of identifying
forgeries, not a method of identifying legitimate email.
That is what Sender-ID is, a means of identifying legitimate mail.
That is the objective.
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
I don't think an ad hominem attack is really an appropriate
response to
a concise and technical report such as the one to which you were
responding.
I shouldn't worry about Phillip's silliness. After all he is
an Oxonian
and so should be familiar with institutions that are more
concerned with
the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin than, say,
nuclear physics.
Actually I was in the Nuclear Physics department.