Firewalls: don't *bother* flaming about mail fakery

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(March 1994)

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Subject:	*don't bother* flaming about mail fakery**
From:	Nobody Special <user01 @ arpa . com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 1994 07:06:00 -0800
To:	firewalls @ greatcircle . com

You don't need anonymous servers.  Numerous mailers out there still believe
the hostname you hand it in the HELO.  Until these are fixed, there's little
to be done about someone seriously intent on forging.

I sent this straight from ftp.com with a simple script.  The people at Netcom
might want to go over their own machines [and it was sendmail 8.6.4, yet].

_H*  [for reference]

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