On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 17:47:02 -0500, Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> wrote: > "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <sl@eskimo.com> writes: > > > By using an invalid email address in your headers with a valid > > domain, the site's mx is picking up the weight of spam, even though > > you are not. > > I think eskimo.com's mail system is actually slightly broken, and > that Alan Connor isn't posting mail as if from eskimo.com. > > I looked at my copy of the parent post, and here's the headers > > Old-Return-Path: <alanc@localhost> > From: Alan Connor <alanc@localhost> > > > I think eskimo.com is rewriting that localhost into eskimo.com. So > it isn't actually getting any extra load from Alan Connor... it's > just slightly damaging the mail. (Which doesn't strike me as a large > bug, since he shouldn't be posting with that address, anyway. Why > people think that a fake From: but a valid Reply-To: is any use is > beyond me.) Oh, you're right. Now that I examine the headers even further, it turns out that Eskimo is rewriting the address. But anyways, a valid, routable email address should always be used in mailing lists anyways. That's just proper netiquette, something that Alan Connor didn't hesitate to throw at us regarding PGP/GPG signatures. The USENET is a different story, and I'm willing to bet that he's not aware of munging policies of mailing lists vs. the USENET. -- Scott Christopher Linnenbringer <sl@eskimo.com> http://www.eskimo.com/~sl/info.txt <sl@moslug.org>
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