Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?
Paul Smith <[email protected]>
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At 17:00 30/01/2004, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: >>The vast majority of the spam I receive has anonymous headers/envelope >>information. > >no, it doesn't. Unless your own mail server is really, really broken, it >knows the IP address of the machine it was sent from. Therefore, that >message isn't anonymous, because you can trace the message back to the >sending machine. No, I can trace it back to the sending **IP address** - which is totally different, and useless for most purposes. The IP address doesn't tell me who sent the message. It's probably quite hard for many ISPs to find out which particular user had a particular IP address at a particular point in time - that's probably why so few bother finding out following spam reports. If I *could* trace it back to the sending machine, or the sending user, then spam wouldn't be anywhere near as big a problem.. Paul VPOP3 - Internet Email Server/Gateway [email protected] http://www.pscs.co.uk/