Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:14:49 -0500 From: hawk <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: simple idea to rid the world of most spam Message-ID: <200102191514.f1JFEn637372@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Feb 2001 12:46:12 GMT." <Pine.GSO.4.31.0102181239410.14103-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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Jan jived, > Nice idea in principle, but many sites get quite a bit of collateral > spam caused by spammers using real email addresses in the "From" field. Even more than that, the From: tends to be specifically targeted by seasoned spammers. At Iowa state, I noticed about three names regularly appearing--two were administrators who dealt with spam, and another was a mass professor . . . hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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