On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:06:06 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
>> You misunderstand, I think. Marc is saying that this penalizes users who
>> want to send mail via their favorite SMTP client with their ISP/work
>> account but set the return infomation to their Hotmail account (although
>> why anyone would *want* to do this, is beyond me :)
>
>They could set the Reply-To field to anything they want and not be
>penalized. Setting the From field to their hotmail address, when they
>were sending from somewhere other than hotmail would be forgery
>regardless of the intent, and I would have no problem blocking such
>mail (not that I have any immediate plans to bother doing so)
Again, a comment that applies to gmx.de which basically does the same
thing than hotmail. gmx does heavy spam filtering on mail sent to
addresses in the gmx domain. So, users are interested in having their
gmx address in the From: field because that won't "burn" their "real"
address.
Greetings
Marc
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