[PLUG] Saving bandwidth...

Jeff Schwaber freyley at gmx.net
Thu Sep 4 21:38:01 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:57, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:56:52PM -0700, Jeff Schwaber wrote:
> > 1) how do you define a forged header? I have email accounts that do not
> > have SMTP servers,
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> Then how are you sending or getting replies to them?

My ISP, and various of my accounts that do have SMTP servers, all use
authenticated SMTP. So they don't care what email address I use as the
>From field since they can trace it to me if they have to (i.e. if I'm
abusive). This is quite normal practice.

Jeff

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