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Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at



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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:47:02PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Why people think that a fake From: but a valid Reply-To: is any use
> is beyond me.

Address munging is considered harmful anyway, especially so in email.
So why do it at all?  It's less productive and more destructive than
C-R.  Seems like a pointless excersize that does nothing to reduce
spam, nothing to prevent or help sort it's reception for later
reporting, is itself spammer behaviour, makes it difficult or
impossible to send a response or search archives by author, and makes
it impossible to make a personal response.


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