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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: davids@webmaster.com
Cc: jroland@roland.net, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net,
	riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The spam problem.
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:50:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020812.005022.69048367.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020812073558.AAA17330@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>


Nobody has mentioned the fact that spammers can forge the
From: field just like anyone else can.

If you enforce that the first sender at the Received: headers
have to match the From: or some rule like that, then I could
not post to these lists for example.

This is why enforcing that subscribers only can post to the lists is
totally unacceptablt.  It doesn't stop spam, it's merely a deterrant
and it serves mostly to piss off legitimate users of these lists.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-12  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-12  5:01 RE:Re: The spam problem Hell.Surfers
2002-08-12  5:15 ` Jim Roland
2002-08-12  7:35   ` David Schwartz
2002-08-12  7:50     ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-08-12 13:50       ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-13 18:25         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-08-12 20:24       ` Thunder from the hill
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-12  3:04 Hell.Surfers
2002-08-12  2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  3:18 ` David D. Hagood
2002-08-12  1:44 Hell.Surfers
2002-08-12  1:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  2:22   ` David D. Hagood
2002-08-12  2:12     ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  2:48       ` David D. Hagood
2002-08-12  4:41 ` Jim Roland
2002-08-12  4:50   ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-12  5:11   ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  8:47   ` Willy Tarreau
     [not found] ` <5.1.0.14.2.20020812064112.00b6b9c0@pop.gmx.net>
2002-08-12  4:48   ` Jim Roland
2002-08-12  5:00     ` Dhr N. Van Alphen
2002-08-12  8:42       ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-12  5:12     ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12 11:23 ` Richard B. Johnson

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