At 8:58 AM -0800 3/17/98, Ryan Anderson wrote:
Markoff in the NYT reports today on the release of a new Sendmail upgrade by author Eric Allman that will block spam by checking the legitimacy of the originating address before delivery.
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All it really does is force spammers to search for someone's real address to spoof and harass. (They can just scan usenet, and pick on random people if they want..)
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