On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 04:15:53AM -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Mike Holling writes:
> > Exactly. The implicit assumption being promoted here is that an ISP's
> > mail server is somehow more "legitimate" than an arbitrary mailserver on
> > the Internet. As Russ has just demonstrated, there is quite a bit of
> > legitimate mail transacted on non-ISP servers.
>
> Machines with static IP addresses have a credential -- the
> correspondance between name and number. Muncher.math.uic.edu has
> proven itself trustworthy. How do I know it is muncher? By it's IP
> address, and by the reverse DNS record that identifies it as muncher.
> Could someone forge muncher's identity? Yes, by DNS spoofing. That
> is too much work for spammers, however.
If it works, they might learn....
Greetz, Peter.
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