Re: Security

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From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel@acm.org)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2001 - 22:56:51 CST


In <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103201758300.4093-100000@spock.peak.org>, on
03/20/2001
   at 06:04 PM, John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> said:

>If the poster(s) decide to use an invalid address in the
>From-content, it should have the string ".invalid" appended to
>indicate that it is invalid.

Why? What is the justification for telling him to append .invalid to
something else? The requirement should simply be that it ends in
.invalid, not that he went through some prescribed process to generate
it.

>The mailbox that results from removing the ".invalid" flag should
>not be an otherwise valid address.

How about

The mailbox that results from removing the ".invalid" flag should not
be an otherwise valid address, unless the poster is authorized to use
that address.

 

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