--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > This does not makes sense **at all**. List are suposed to be public
> bulletin
> > boards, not private chat rooms!
> >
> > In any event, the writer of that paper (if you can call it that) could not
> give
> > a sensible reason for not overrinding (or munging as he call it) the
> Reply-To
> > header; but I will give you a single one why you should: SPAMMERS
> >
> > If a spammer su*scribes to the list with a generic email (a one time use
> like
> > hotmail, yahoo, etc) and send a controversial message like "Microsoft pays
> > Torvalds under the table" with the Reply-To set to his address collecting
> > address; them BAM! immediately he has hundreds of email addresses (of all
> the
> > people that replied) of people interested in Linux. Now, think about that
> for a
> > moment ... done? ... well, what would happens if this spammer joins
> hundreds of
> > lists nad uses a different alias address in the "Reply-To" for each
> category of
> > lists ... guess what? ... he will end up with a database of email addresses
> > already categorized by interest!
> >
> >
> Eugenio, are you a spammer :)
Actually this came to my mind as I read the bad paper, and my mind exploded
with ways to contradict the bad arguments in the paper.
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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