Re: Thinking outside the box

> I believe Mailman will optionally insert something like [PHRASE] in subject
> lines, such as
>
>      Subject: [ASRG] Thinking outside the box
>
> I don't think I've ever seen counterfeiting of that and in the case of widely
> subscribed mailing lists it's exceedingly simple.

It's probably not worth their effort. Big lists are still small from a spammer's point of view. I guess it would be much easier for them to just subscribe to the list.

But - and I apologise for repeating myself - why not use the sender's email address as a unique password-like identifier? And put that in a header. Call it 'From'. Works rather well.

Martijn.


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