In chiark.mail.debian.devel, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:18:46AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: >> The above is based on the false premise that those who send spam are >> incapable of sending it with (forged) real email addresses. They >> already have lots of them to choose from. > >But if they send the spam with a forged email address, the confirmation >request won't be answered.
In order to avoid this, spammers merely have to use a forged from address that will generate an automatic response. There's no shortage of those. [EMAIL PROTECTED] springs to mind, and I have no doubt that there are many others. The spammers can therefore trivially circumvent the anti-spam measure at no extra cost to themselves, while at the same time causing even more inconvenience to everyone else. It's a stupid idea and pandering to people who utilise it only makes things worse for everyone. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
