Mailing list abuse

I came up with a neat technique for tracing this kind of abuse.
I run into it not only with mailing lists, but with braindead MTAs
that reply to DSNs - and then don't even include the recipient of the
DSN!

My solution is yet another application of SRS.  Before sending
a DSN or a message to a mailing list member, I SRS encode the recipient 
into the Message-ID header along with a serial #.  This is usually 
preserved in a response - even when nothing else is (don't ask me
why).  The original recipient is then easily extracted, and the SRS hash 
prevents someone playing mean tricks on an innocent recipient via 
spoofing.

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	      Stuart D. Gathman <[email protected]>
    Business Management Systems Inc.  Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.