From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 11:40:49 CST
In <Pine.LNX.3.91.1020103093018.169D-100000@darkstar.prodigy.com> Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
>It may be that somewhere there is a pool of people who post with their
>real spammable id on posts, but they sure are not my customers. I doubt
>that users will use a service which insists on their real mail address, I
>certainly will not run software which provides it, and I think the idea
>that we should all be so trusting is not related to the real world.
The policy adopted by a particular injector is really a matter for the
contract between the injector and the poster. If the poster is using the
injector provided by his employer, then he has not much option except to
live within his employer's requirements. OTOH any ISP offering service to
the general public is unlikely to insist on the contents of the From
header, or even the Sender, though one hopes it will at least put enough
information in the Injector-Info (in cryptic notation or not) to enable
the poster to be traced when necessary.
>To require a real id is naive, to even recommend it is unrealistic. I
>can't believe the standard would be passed with this in place.
Indeed, but it is not in place, and I don't think anyone is calling for
it.
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