From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 7 18:54:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25847 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:54:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25841; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA26960; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 21:55:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA18117; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 21:55:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 21:55:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: Sean Eric Fagan cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spam and the FreeBSD mailing lists In-Reply-To: <199709080031.RAA00445@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article <199709072335.QAA17881.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@hub.freebsd.org> you write: > > please remember to distinguish between "mail from:" addresses > > and relays. there is *not* reasone that i know of that a > > "mail from:" address must be resolvable. > > Uh, if we can't reply to them, what are we doing allowing them to ask > questions? Anticipating that they have set the reply-to field. (Which of course leads to question #2; if they're smart enough to set the reply-to field, aren't they smart enough to use a correct mail from?) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk