On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:18:49 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> No one who's spent any time fighting spam puts even the slightest
> credence in either the From: or Return-Path: of a spam, as they are
> invariably fraudulent. So even if someone were trying to sully your
> reputation this way, it wouldn't work.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As a matter of fact, a lot of people who don't know better +will+
complain to the apparent sender, and the apparent sender's upstream,
etc; mail bomb the apparent sender; send remove requests to the
apparent sender; and ask the apparent sender how on Earth the apparent
sender found their email address. (Duh. If they themselves send mail
to spammers, how do they expect their address to remain unnoticed?)
Been there, been subjected to that. (And how. And how many times.)
I don't think this is an appropriate forum for a prolonged discussion
about these things, though. In a desperate attempt to return back
on-topic, there's a FAQ collection at <http://www.suespammers.org/>
which you might want to consult.
Hope this helps,
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