Re: Forging my return address with gnus

Re: Forging my return address with gnus

[Christian Nybø]

Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

> Forging your address is never a good idea.

Justin,
Does that apply to forging in general, or forging as a spam-protection 
scheme?  The last I agree with, but I find it comfortable to use my
usual email addresses even if I'm in a different domain.

-- 
chr

Re: Forging my return address with gnus

[Justin Sheehy]

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chr@mediascience.no (Christian Nybø) writes:

> Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
> 
> > Forging your address is never a good idea.

> Does that apply to forging in general, or forging as a spam-protection 
> scheme?  The last I agree with, but I find it comfortable to use my
> usual email addresses even if I'm in a different domain.

I guess I don't know what you mean by a "different domain".

Sending email or news messages with an invalid address, as the
original poster was preparing to do, is always wrong.

-Justin

Re: Forging my return address with gnus

[Alan Shutko]

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>>>>> "J" == Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

J> chr@mediascience.no (Christian Nybø) writes:

>> Does that apply to forging in general, or forging as a
>> spam-protection scheme?  The last I agree with, but I find it
>> comfortable to use my usual email addresses even if I'm in a
>> different domain.

J> I guess I don't know what you mean by a "different domain".

J> Sending email or news messages with an invalid address, as the
J> original poster was preparing to do, is always wrong.

For example, I post using the address of ats@acm.org, even though I'm
technically posting from the wustl. domain. 

In cases like this, you're using a perfectly valid address (and
perhaps one which will remain valid much longer and you'd prefer
people to remember) but it may not technically be the mailbox at your
site.

I don't see a problem with it... if someone needs to know where my
posts cape from, they can read the headers.  But I'd rather not
enccourage people to respond to short-term email addresses, because
it's such a pain to convince them to change them when they've gone bad.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
The time for action is past!  Now is the time for senseless bickering.

Re: Forging my return address with gnus

["Christian Nybø"]

Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

> chr@mediascience.no (Christian Nybø) writes:
> 
> > Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Forging your address is never a good idea.
> 
> > Does that apply to forging in general, or forging as a spam-protection 
> > scheme?  The last I agree with, but I find it comfortable to use my
> > usual email addresses even if I'm in a different domain.
> 
> I guess I don't know what you mean by a "different domain".

Domain as in domain name.  If I'm sending from a machine whose FDQN
has little to do with the domain at which I receive mail. 

> Sending email or news messages with an invalid address, as the
> original poster was preparing to do, is always wrong.

Yup, no problem with that.  

Will this qualify as forging my address: 
	my home box is known as sgichr.sib.hl.no.  Still, I wish to
	send and receive mail as chr@mediascience.no.

Is there anything wrong with setting message-user-mail-address to
chr@mediascience.no, even if I don't use the MTA at mediascience.no
when sending mail?
-- 
chr

Re: Forging my return address with gnus

[Justin Sheehy]

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"Christian Nybø" <chr@mediascience.no> writes:

> Is there anything wrong with setting message-user-mail-address to
> chr@mediascience.no, even if I don't use the MTA at mediascience.no
> when sending mail?

No, not at all.  There's nothing wrong with that.

The person who asked the question that I was responding to was asking
how to insert ".spam." or somesuch thing into their address.

If your address is valid and will be delivered to you, then there is
definitely no problem.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

In a cloud bones of steel.