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To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>,
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Subject: Re: simple idea to rid the world of most spam 
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Jan jived,


> Nice idea in principle, but many sites get quite a bit of collateral
> spam caused by spammers using real email addresses in the "From" field.

Even more than that, the From: tends to be specifically targeted
by seasoned spammers.  At Iowa state, I noticed about three names
regularly appearing--two were administrators who dealt with spam,
and another was a mass professor . . .

hawk



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