> -----Original Message----- > From: IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com > [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of NetQuick Mail > Administration > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 7:51 PM > To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] HEADER QUESTION > > > Gentlemen If I might intercede. > > The RFCs says what the standards are and are not. I fail > to see where > there is any implication as to trust or security. The RFCs is but a > standard. Email headers at their inception may have been > intended as a > trust worthy, but unfortunately they have been forged, > hacked, and abused > beyond anything foreseeable when the RFCs were initially written. > > Since then they have become unreliable and due to the > inseption of the > black list by the Unix mafia, a hazard to any mail server > that uses them to > validate senders. Any server relying on them, if found out, > will shortly > have John and Bobby Kennedy spamming away along with Jimmy > Hoffa. Shortly > there after they will come to the attention of one or the other of the > non-govermental Email vigilanties and be added to their > database of open > relay/blocked servers. After that it will only be a short > while before > their server becomes a meer electronic paperweight on the WWW. > > Like it or not that is the way of the world wide web. It > ain't right > but it is reality. > > Now can we move on to something more productive before I > go into another > rant? > > Kevin Childers > > > > > >