Re: forged from headers

Hi Steve,

That's why it is a good idea not to include the entire original email in
the reply. Also note that most spam is pretty formatted (HTML, with colors,
etc). Since only part of the original message is transmitted "in-line",
ASK becomes useless as a spam reflector, IMHO.

There are those who disagree and think that C/R systems are worse than spam
itself. I agree that C/R agents can used to bounce an email, but that is also
true for every MTA out there, mailing-list manager, vacation program and so
on... And I'm not even counting the virii...

Regards,
Paga

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:16:23AM -0400, Steve Mallett wrote:
> Running ASK for a day or so one of the concerns I've heard from folks 
> I've told has been that I end up spamming the poor folks whose real 
> email address are being used by the spammers in the from header.
> 
> How much of a concern is this?? And how are folks using ASK dealing with 
> this to minimize the chance of sending some poor guys inbox into oblivion??
> -- 
> Steve Mallett
> http://steve.osdir.com
> 
> 
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