Re: New feature request: "faked" identity, and supercede

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrv> I don't think such obstacles are a good idea.  Do you mean that
Hrv> when I post from public.srce.hr with `From:
Hrv> hniksic@fly.cc.fer.hr' (which *is* my valid internet address),
Hrv> that I will be hampered?  Or did I misread the messages?

There isn't any sure-fire method of distinguishing spam from the email
headers alone, so my guess is they intend you to be hampered.

Cut it out guys.  Security through obscurity doesn't work.

Doing checks based on DNS isn't going to give you any protection,
since there is no current way for Gnus & Emacs to check the validity
of the DNS data it receives.  (As one example consider a machine with
a tunnelled connection to the internet, running a standalone root DNS
server).

Nearly all of the spam I receive is from stupid Microsoft Windows
losers using Pegasus or Eudora anyway.  Or consider public enemy
CyberPromo and how they doctor their sendmail.cf to pretend to be from
some other domain.  Making Gnus harder to use for legitimate purposes
isn't going to stop any of that.  So why bother to pretend?
-- 
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What are the last two letters of "doesn't" and "can't"?
Coincidence?  I think not.