At 17:00 30/01/2004, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
The vast majority of the spam I receive has anonymous headers/envelope
information.
no, it doesn't. Unless your own mail server is really, really broken, it
knows the IP address of the machine it was sent from. Therefore, that
message isn't anonymous, because you can trace the message back to the
sending machine.
No, I can trace it back to the sending **IP address** - which is totally
different, and useless for most purposes.
The IP address doesn't tell me who sent the message. It's probably quite
hard for many ISPs to find out which particular user had a particular IP
address at a particular point in time - that's probably why so few bother
finding out following spam reports.
If I *could* trace it back to the sending machine, or the sending user,
then spam wouldn't be anywhere near as big a problem..
Paul VPOP3 - Internet Email Server/Gateway
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