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Subject: Re: Spam Filtering and Messy Details.
From: Norbert Bollow <nb @ thinkcoach . com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:08:10 +0200
To: spamtools @ abuse . net, List-Managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <19693.897429518@monkeys.com> (rfg@monkeys.com)
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Ron Guilmette <rfg@monkeys.com> wrote among other things:

> On the receiving end, sites which receive mail to some large number of their
> users (say 20 or more) at about the same time from a given IP address would
> check the message after the first 20 for the presence of a valid X-Opt-In:

Here's a weak point of your proposal IMHO... Someone would write a tool for
spammers to allow them to send out their spam with bogus orginating IP 
addresses (using IP spoofing).

-- 
Norbert Bollow, Zuerich, Switzerland     Backup E-mail address: NB@POBOX.COM
Churchplanters E-mail conference, see http://genesis.acu.edu/cplant/


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