In <20100128150035.xhjx3222.eastrmmtao103.cox....@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>,
on 01/28/2010
   at 10:00 AM, [email protected] said:

>Given how trivial it is to forge mail,

FSVO forge. It's certainly trivial to provide a bogus From: header field,
but it's highly nontrivial to provide a bogus source IP. The Received:
header fields should provide a hint as to whether the offending message
was sent from the same network as the subscription request.
 
-- 
     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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