On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:01:44AM +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >It is not easy to authenticate a person even in RL - identity theft > >and various scams are not unheard of, and it is much harder online when > >you can't see or touch a thing. > >However, most of the cases with email for the recipient it is enough to > >know that the sender of the email is authorized by the domain > >administrator to send it. At least, for detecting email forgery it would > >be enough - and mass-hosters of course would have to implement some > >internal mechanism to not allow users impersonate one another - but this > >would be outside of the email communication domain. > > Authenticating the sender is a major step towards preventing spam. It's > also important to users to know that the message they received is really > sent by an authenticated E-mail address. It can reduce (but not > completely prevent) cases of phishing, worms etc. But in itself it is > not a complete solution against spam. The reason is because spammers > can (and do) register new domain names and use them for spamming. > That's why I think there should be a way to limit the number of messages > sent by each person to a small number
Read: you need a license to run a mailing list. Thansk, but no, thanks. Not to mention sending a notification to all of your friends that you've changed your address. > , and check that it's a real person > who sends them. And not a zomby contrling that real person's email program and authenticating using that password stored in the mailer's configuration. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
