> Finally, the whole system is easily fooled if you don't use encryption > since I can easily forge the From address. Most people are going to > whitelist things like their postmaster or addresses used by popular > sites like Amazon's or ebay's confirmation messages and if Microsoft or > Netscape happened to whitelist their support address while adding > support into their mail clients...
I already block email claiming to be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] that arrives from outside panix's physical network. Likewise, it's easy enough to check that mail from a whitelisted address (especially a popular one) came from an appropriate mailserver. Seth _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
