[Asrg] Re: Forgery in SMTP

[Matthew Elvey <matthew@elvey.com>]

On 12/26/2003 2:14 PM, gep2@terabites.com sent forth electrons to convey:

> ...By default, an unrecognized or unauthorized person would be able to send the 
> recipient a "simple", small post... no attachments, no HTML-burdened content 
> (including NO embedded images, no scripting, etc)!, maybe with an upper-bound 
> size of 10K or 50K or something....
>
>  
Not a bad idea, though I don't see it spreading like wildfire.   But the 
spam making it though my current filters would mostly make it through 
this filter too.

> Now, I have lately been getting "junk" spam messages which contain NO visible 
> purpose whatsoever... ...  Perhaps their "real" content is in an HTML-burdened alternative 
> version (which gets stripped out of all E-mail upon arrival here).  
This is so for spam I've received recently. 

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