Re: Security

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From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 04:14:01 CST


John Stanley said:
> But that brings up an interesting point. Who is going to get the blame
> when someone uses the .invalid flag to mark an address as invalid, and the
> spammers start using the "remove the .invalid flag" trick? (I could
> legally post as kent@landfied.com.invalid, because the address sans
> .invalid is one that I am not authorized to use -- and adding .invalid
> makes it conformant.)

That's a very good point. We perhaps want some guidelines about the use of
.invalid somewhere.

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