Gary Lawrence Murphy writes:
> This is for the whitelist fans: Can someone please tell us why the
> following extremely frequent spam header pattern would _not_ pass a
> whitelist test?  The letter itself is most certainly spam/viral and
> was most certainly not sent by me, but I see no way you might tell
> that it was not, nor can I see how I might charge the sender with
> fraud for having 'impersonated' my account.
If you crypto-sign your outgoing mail, you don't have to set
your mailwall whitelist to accept unsigned mail spoofed as being
from you.
Similarly, if you include some weaker token or checksum that
spammers can't easily guess.
If you can track the actual sender, then the proof that they've
committed identity fraud is your credible testimony that you
are the rightful user of the declared originating address, and
that you did not send the message. I'm not sure what level of
damages you could claim, though.
- Gordon
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Re: Perhaps Apple isn't as user-friendly as we thought...
From fork-admin@xent.com  Fri Aug  9 16:07:21 2002