In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 08/01/2005
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In my naivete, why not?
Because it would allow through spam. Spammers are notorious for using
forged addresses, and there is nothing to stop them from sending with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as the reverse path, From or Sender. It's much
more difficult to forge the source IP address.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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