From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 12:21:54 CST
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:22:28PM +0100, Henk Stokhorst wrote:
> Harvesting of emailaddresses.
>
> A very serious issue, spam is a major downside of the internet. Solving
> this matter however is not up to us. The same applies to harvesting
> emailaddresses from webpages. Instead the matter should be handled by
> civil law.
>
Actually, there are other solutions than law. However, the problem
that is ours to solve is to deal with the issued caused by haphazard
attempts to stop harvesting. In order to stop it, people stopped
putting a real address in the From line. That area -- what you put in
the from line, what it means and whether you can reply to it -- is within
the province of the USENET spec.