[ga] Domain names are highly irrelevant in the struggle against spam (Re:[ga] Vint why do none...)

[Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net>]

> At 07:23 AM 9/17/2002 -0700, todd glassey wrote:

> >I get this SPAM this morning
> >and after doing a header analysis, we find
> >it comes from a domain

The only thing certain about the origin of an email is the IP of the
mailserver through which it was sent. In many/most spam messages the
sender's email address in the header is fake, including the domain name(s)
involved. Even the hostname of the mailserver is quite often fake. We can
only rely on the IP.

> >called 99talk.com, registered through the Boy Scouts
> >of Australia, only the contact email addresses for the domain all bounce...


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