I think you misunderstand email. Why shouldn't I be able to send an email with my paradise return address from a server in timbuctoo? I can. And I should be able to.
On Tue, November 20, 2007 8:34 pm, Wesley Parish wrote: > What I'm expecting them to have is some filter that looks at the purported > address of the sender and at the actual history of the email, and dumps it > if > they are incompatible; I expect them to protect their own identity and > thus > their reputation even more than some other poor sod's, because their > business > lives or dies by their reputation. > > By not doing this, they are in fact permitting infringement of what is > called "goodwill", and "goodwill" isn't something to lightly throw away.. > > Wesley Parish > > On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:36, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> On Mon 19 Nov 2007 20:57:52 NZDT +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: >> > This isn't the first day I've received an email purporting to be from >> > Paradise.net requiring me to "verify" my webmail/email details to >> prevent >> > said account from being closed down. >> >> Yeah, I've been getting that hogwash too. The text isn't even a laugh >> "... just enter your username and password here". Yawn. And Telstraclear >> have a big warning up someplace. >> >> > I wish they'd get their act together. Permitting this sort of >> > infringement makes them look very, very bad. >> >> Why do you assume they permit it? The one I looked at came from optusnet >> in Oz. They could make an effort to have that account shut down, but >> more likely they wouldn't be able to keep up. The only thing they could >> do is train their filters better. Other than that, it's easy to >> impersonate someone, spammers have been doing it for years. >> >> Volker > > -- > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish > ----- > Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are > impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla > warfare means up to their monkey tricks. > Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom > of the foolish. > ----- > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? > You ask, what is the most important thing? > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. > > -- Nick Rout
