What I'm expecting them to have is some filter that looks at the purported address of the sender and at the actual history of the email, and dumps it if they are incompatible; I expect them to protect their own identity and thus their reputation even more than some other poor sod's, because their business lives or dies by their reputation.
By not doing this, they are in fact permitting infringement of what is called "goodwill", and "goodwill" isn't something to lightly throw away. Wesley Parish On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:36, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Mon 19 Nov 2007 20:57:52 NZDT +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: > > This isn't the first day I've received an email purporting to be from > > Paradise.net requiring me to "verify" my webmail/email details to prevent > > said account from being closed down. > > Yeah, I've been getting that hogwash too. The text isn't even a laugh > "... just enter your username and password here". Yawn. And Telstraclear > have a big warning up someplace. > > > I wish they'd get their act together. Permitting this sort of > > infringement makes them look very, very bad. > > Why do you assume they permit it? The one I looked at came from optusnet > in Oz. They could make an effort to have that account shut down, but > more likely they wouldn't be able to keep up. The only thing they could > do is train their filters better. Other than that, it's easy to > impersonate someone, spammers have been doing it for years. > > Volker -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
