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* David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com>  on Mon, 05 Aug 2002
| something that spammers rely upon to maintain their anonymity.  If the
| spammer decides to put in an autoconfirmer to get around TMDA, then he
| has to supply a good "return address" in his SPAM which now makes him
| traceable.  Even if it's only traceable back to a compromised machine,
| that machine can be blacklisted and the sysadmin informed to fix it.

"winatial9077@hotmail.com" is not what I would call "easilly traceable".  A
spammer only needs it for one round of automatically responding to TMDA
approvals.

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