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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:50:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: The spam problem.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Nobody has mentioned the fact that spammers can forge the
From: field just like anyone else can.

If you enforce that the first sender at the Received: headers
have to match the From: or some rule like that, then I could
not post to these lists for example.

This is why enforcing that subscribers only can post to the lists is
totally unacceptablt.  It doesn't stop spam, it's merely a deterrant
and it serves mostly to piss off legitimate users of these lists.
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