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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



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