-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun 27-Jul-03 12:12am -0400, Stefan Tanurkov wrote:
JA>> It seems to me that RITLabs has just saved themselves a world of pain JA>> for now. > You've just saved me from a lot of typing. Thank you! ;-) > That was exactly what I was going to say. > Just a little addition: providing an easy way to forge > X-Mailer/Received headers would immediately classify The Bat! as > spamware. This just sounds like paranoia. As far is received mail is concerned, once it hits my computer, it's mine to do what I please. The Bat! already allows any user to manually change whatever the user want's changed. For sending mail, there are more than enough net tools available to spammers the provide far more power than the typical user clients like The Bat!. Restricting the ability to change the X-Mailer field is a nanny feature we don't need - I prefer to customize mine and their are already tools (like X-Ray) to perform simple changes like this. However, there are legitimate reasons to change both incoming and outgoing email - which The Bat!'s silly nanny obsession prevents. Here's an example of a pre-Inbox and pre-Outbox filter that SHOULD be available to a user: Pre-Inbox Example - Most mailing lists are used by people that use email clients that don't support threading. Threading by subject is less useful when incoming mail can't be "cleansed" of such abominations as "Re: [list-name] Re: ....". Pre-Outbox Example - If the first name in the To: field contains a family member, a child or a grandchild, I modify my From field and signature to Bill, Dad or Grandpa. When I have other addresses in the To: field, I manually change things. A pre-Outbox filter could check for mixed addresses (family and friends) and "park" them instead of sending them. That avoids accidentally sending an email to my son and a friend that ends with "Love, Dad." - -- Best regards, Bill The Bat! 1.63 Beta/11 is now 44 days old. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Bill McCarthy's GPG Signature iD8DBQE/JCXCto6P8brTvEMRAskhAKCAKcjo/VbcDgIM7V1ozkNijYe9fQCdHcLz qMdnbO4hyzlVgcSY0kS72Fk= =zjv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 1.63b11 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
