On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:04:41 EST, Doug said:
It seems to me if the mail server administrators would make the decision to
require people that send emails from their servers to log into a valid
Your proposal would fix the problem, but end up tossing a large quantity
of babies out with the bathwater. The problem is that for the case of
a mailing list, you have *4* (at least) things to keep track of:
1) The RFC821 recipient address. For your copy of this posting, it's "your
email address".
2) The RFC821 sender address. It should be available in the Return-Path:
header in most well-behaved mail systems as you look at your mail.
3) The RFC822 From: address.
4) The RFC822 To: address.
Another problem is that I am (fortunately) still receiving more mail
each day that counts as "legitimate unsolicited" (problem reports about
our servers, people who have seen my name and are looking for technical
advice, etc) than I do actual spam.
It's not as easy as it looks... :)
/Valdis
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