The thing is, if a spammer is claiming to be an actual person, but
isn't, then that person who's being impersonated almost certainly has
legal recourse for damages from the spammer. If I were a spammer, I'd
avoid doing this, just in case I used someone's address who cared enough
to come after me.
C
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 05:54, Aaron Swartz wrote:
On 2002-01-21 2:02 AM, "Craig Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm interested in hearing feedback from people on auto-whitelists.
One concern that comes to mind is the recent practice of taking email
addresses of popular posters to mailing lists and using them as the return
address for spam.
I know two people ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) who have had
spammers use them as a return address recently. Both these people are in my
address book and would certainly be in any whitelist I created. But email
addresses are awfully easy to forge...
Perhaps whitelists (and especially auto whitelists) should have points set
by the GA... Certainly leaving them at -100 will let that kind of spam thru.
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