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>>>>> David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>:

> This is a good plan, we can also suggest that all email forgers
> use 'metis.no' as a hostname when forging. :)  The current trend of
> spammers is to use valid hostnames, except ones they don't have accounts
> on.  So it wouldn't help much there.  

I wasn't thinking of stopping spammers.  I was just trying to put some
obstacles in the way of "humorous" cow-orkers sending email to
all@metis.no as elvis@heaven.com or somesuch.

"Let them eat Netscape"
	-- Marie Antoinette

> I guess I could see someone wanting their mail reader to check the
> addresses of incoming messages for host validity, something called
> similar to mc-verify.  You might want to go further and have your
> 'forgery-verify' routine look at the insertion points (received
> from, or path headers) compared with the addresses.  But this seems
> like a lot of work, and the heuristics might be wrong often?

Nah!  Overkill.