On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: > On Wed, March 31, 2010 12:14 pm, Leigh Porter wrote: >> >> Until somebody does 'view headers' and sees >> >> /X/-/Sender/-/IP >> / >> and oh look, it was sent from 'foobarco' ;-) > > That depends on how they are sending it, of course. Webmail usually just > has the IP of the host, and I imagine quite a few others around here have > their own personal servers that could also be used for this, one way or > another.
GMail doesn't even add that header, so you don't have to worry where you are browsing from. < cue thread about Google's arrogance that they know better how to stop spam than anyone else; cue thread about Google's complete inability to stop spam even close to as well as many others; cue thread about Google's hypocrisy about adding X-Sender-IP on IMAP injected mail, but not through web mail; cue thread about people talking about e-mail / spam on NANOG; cue thread about moving the whole thing to nanog-futures; cue thread about .... > -- TTFN, patrick > Then of course there are things like Blackberries and iPhones that can > send email themselves, and are likely to have IP addresses that are linked > to something besides their current location. > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >
