On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:31:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:18, 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.
This is an existing and well known problem of the current internet mail infrastructure. Yes, envelope senders and headers can be forged. > Of course such a spam filter will stop such spam at the cost of doubly > spamming innocent people who have their addresses forged. Doubly? I cannot follow. > It's very anti-social, zero sum game stuff. Come on, no need to especially blame my mail handling program. In another mail you wrote, you don't deliver spam to /dev/null but bounce it. Where do you think the bounce will end up? Nothing else is doing my software, sending a bounce to the envelope sender; there is no difference. Gerrit.
