Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:41:49 -0400 From: Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anti-spam sendmail in 2.2.5? Message-ID: <199710170337.XAA23619@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710162355.SAA21850@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <Message from "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> <199710160507.WAA01356@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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>> recipient of the SPAM. I support legislation that would make it illegal >> to forge an e-mail header, or otherwise misrepresent the source of the >> e-mail. Quite honestly I don't see that that would do any good at all. It's so trivially easy to fake where the email is coming from. Then you'd have to prove where the email really did come from. Given the fact that it is pretty easy to forge email, that would be no small task. Then of course there's the small issue of it not having any effect on anything coming from outside the US (and believe me, if spammers felt at all threatened by it it'd be trivial for them to originate from outside the US). Gary Schrock root@eyelab.msu.edu
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