On Tuesday 18 February 2003 12:13 am, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:11:18PM -0800, Brian Baker wrote: > > About two months ago I started receiving email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and similar addresses. Apparently 'someone' is sending spam with my > > Yahoo account as the return address. If any law is passed regarding > > spam, would I be held liable for these emails? (and the 100s or 1,000s > > that didn't have transmission errors) > > > > brian > > No, the headers will show it comes from aol's mail servers or where ever. > It is a trivial matter to forge one's From: or reply-to address. These are > not valid identification mechanisms. >
But do the people voting on these measures realize this, or are they thinking it is a simple matter to identify the real culprit? The few headers that I have taken the time to look at show that the ip addx is (most likely) a dial up account on some little-known isp. And even that isn't accurate because most ISPs don't go to much length to validate users creating/using accounts. > Cory > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
