* Re: Forging my return address with gnus [not found] ` <glm90mxe685.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org> @ 1998-06-16 17:05 ` Christian Nybø 1998-06-16 17:52 ` Justin Sheehy 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Christian Nybø @ 1998-06-16 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Forging my return address with gnus 1998-06-16 17:05 ` Forging my return address with gnus Christian Nybø @ 1998-06-16 17:52 ` Justin Sheehy 1998-06-16 18:19 ` Alan Shutko 1998-06-16 18:32 ` "Christian Nybø" 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Justin Sheehy @ 1998-06-16 17:52 UTC (permalink / raw) [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 538 bytes --] 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Forging my return address with gnus 1998-06-16 17:52 ` Justin Sheehy @ 1998-06-16 18:19 ` Alan Shutko 1998-06-16 18:32 ` "Christian Nybø" 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Alan Shutko @ 1998-06-16 18:19 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: ding [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1233 bytes --] >>>>> "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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Forging my return address with gnus 1998-06-16 17:52 ` Justin Sheehy 1998-06-16 18:19 ` Alan Shutko @ 1998-06-16 18:32 ` "Christian Nybø" 1998-06-16 18:54 ` Justin Sheehy 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: "Christian Nybø" @ 1998-06-16 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Forging my return address with gnus 1998-06-16 18:32 ` "Christian Nybø" @ 1998-06-16 18:54 ` Justin Sheehy 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Justin Sheehy @ 1998-06-16 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw) [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 536 bytes --] "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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~1998-06-16 18:54 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 5+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed) -- links below jump to the message on this page -- [not found] <m3emwqu8dx.fsf@colony-4426.demon.co.uk> [not found] ` <glm90mxe685.fsf@caffeine.mitre.org> 1998-06-16 17:05 ` Forging my return address with gnus Christian Nybø 1998-06-16 17:52 ` Justin Sheehy 1998-06-16 18:19 ` Alan Shutko 1998-06-16 18:32 ` "Christian Nybø" 1998-06-16 18:54 ` Justin Sheehy
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