Re: Spam Filtering and Messy Details.

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <199806111108.NAA24202@pythagoras>, you wrote:

>Ron Guilmette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote among other things:
>
>> On the receiving end, sites which receive mail to some large number of their
>> users (say 20 or more) at about the same time from a given IP address would
>> check the message after the first 20 for the presence of a valid X-Opt-In:
>
>Here's a weak point of your proposal IMHO... Someone would write a tool for
>spammers to allow them to send out their spam with bogus orginating IP 
>addresses (using IP spoofing).

At the present time, and despite the already considerable incentives to do
so, there are no known spammers attempting to do IP spoofing.  I see no
reason why that would change if my rather simple idea were put into
practice.


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