On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:47:02PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > I think eskimo.com is rewriting that localhost into eskimo.com. So > it isn't actually getting any extra load from Alan Connor... it's > just slightly damaging the mail. (Which doesn't strike me as a large > bug, since he shouldn't be posting with that address, anyway. Why > people think that a fake From: but a valid Reply-To: is any use is > beyond me.)
It's arguably a useful (if rude) tactic in news, since, I hypothesize, it's much faster for spammers to harvest From: addresses because they're usually in the overview file while Reply-To: is not. That makes it a matter of downloading an index versus downloading every article. That argument doesn't apply to e-mail, though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
