Re: Email explained from first principles

"John R Levine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.smtp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
PS:

On Thu, 27 May 2021, Kaspar Etter wrote:
> On a different note, the problem with malicious display names is much 
> worse than many people are aware: ...

I can assure you that everyone here is quite aware of the issue.  We're 
also aware that a large number of mail users pay no attention to the 
sender's name at all.  If you send a message from Evil Russian Criminal 
telling people to click on this link to verify your Paypal payment, lots 
of people will click anyway.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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