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From: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>
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>  BTW, shouldn't sendmail/smail/etc be made SPAM proof right in the
> sources ?

According to the sendmail.org web pages, 8.9 will include such
fixes relatively out of the box.  I suggested an additional change
relative to SPAM in mail I sent to the sendmail mailing list this
past weekend, but got no takers.  (I'm not ON that list, I think it's 
a closed group.)

It comes down to Anti-SPAM measures take alot of work to nail the
latest patterns of sender abuse, and most people are not up to it.
We could apply some of 8.8.x hacks to the FreeBSD port, for example,
but you can't blindly turn the features on and have them work except
for the most trivial cases.

-ahd-