On Sunday, April 3, 2005, 06:05, hggdh wrote: > My personal view is that an e-mail client should frown on using a > 'From:' address that is not configured under a valid account. In other > words, the 'Reply-To' header field has to be a valid reference when > the e-mail leaves the e-mail client.
> This, for an e-mail client, would go a long way on having said e-mail > client taken out of some spammer lists. I do follow your thoughts, but as long as we CAN alter the From: address, I see no reason not to let us do it in the easiest way. I would applause a more rigid email standard with, say, certificates with hard coded From: addresses or any other measures to make life harder for spammers, but as long as (non-encrypted) emailing is based on trust, I do want the advantages that provides along with the disadvantages. I do, from time to time, have legit reasons to change the From: address temporarily and I do appreciate TB! letting me do it as easy as it does. I doubt this feature makes spammers use TB!, there must be more efficient tools our there. Our concern should not be with spamming, but with spoofing. Preventing spoofing is not made at the client level thought, it must be dealt with by the ISP or the receiver. -- Regards, Marcus Ohlstr�m Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 PGP Public Key at http://www.canit.se/~marcus/pgp.asc ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.9.12 Return | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
