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Date:      Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:33:05 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rejecting spam, accepting valid mail (was: Mail blocked)
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020310113030.00d51920@nospam.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <iselisd9zk.lis@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <3C8B01B9.D7BE84DC@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020307094130.01f59240@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020306234510.01ee0180@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020306234510.01ee0180@nospam.lariat.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20020307094130.01f59240@nospam.lariat.org> <3cg03ccef4.03c@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20020307221616.00cb9980@nospam.lariat.org> <20020308190102.B679@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <d1lmd1dwzm.md1@localhost.localdomain> <3C8B01B9.D7BE84DC@mindspring.com>

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At 02:53 AM 3/10/2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>That's interesting, as it implies that there are hundreds of thousands
>of federal criminals (eg, a big % of usenet posters and hotmail/yahoo
>users) running free.

An RFC 822 message ID header isn't a "claim of identity." After all,
it doesn't even contain a user name, just a "domain part" (something
that meets the *syntax requirements* of a domain name). Which "localhost" 
certainly does.

--Brett


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