Gentlemen If I might intercede.
The RFCs says what the standards are and are not. I fail to see where
there is any implication as to trust or security. The RFCs is but a
standard. Email headers at their inception may have been intended as a
trust worthy, but unfortunately they have been forged, hacked, and abused
beyond anything foreseeable when the RFCs were initially written.
Since then they have become unreliable and due to the inseption of the
black list by the Unix mafia, a hazard to any mail server that uses them to
validate senders. Any server relying on them, if found out, will shortly
have John and Bobby Kennedy spamming away along with Jimmy Hoffa. Shortly
there after they will come to the attention of one or the other of the
non-govermental Email vigilanties and be added to their database of open
relay/blocked servers. After that it will only be a short while before
their server becomes a meer electronic paperweight on the WWW.
Like it or not that is the way of the world wide web. It ain't right
but it is reality.
Now can we move on to something more productive before I go into another
rant?
Kevin Childers
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