On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:15:27PM -0800, Larry Gilbert wrote: > Rather than contribute to the flame war, I would like to ask a question. > Apologies if this is a total rookie question. > > Why is murphy.debian.org not adding a "Received:" header to show where > messages are originating? This information is useful when trying to > track down actual spammers. Is this being deliberately omitted or does > qmail just normally not include this info? Some MTA's -- and I don't know which ones -- apparently choke if there is more than n bytes' worth of Received: headers. So, as I understand it, these are stripped out by murphy to help make sure the list mails get to all the recipients. A person who runs an SMTP listener on their own box could, of course, be sure to run a non-broken MTA, but some people don't do that because they've been intimidated into using a smarthost, which might run just such a broken MTA. The anti-spam bigots enjoy seeing catch-22's like this. DoS attacks in the name spam prevention is their favorite sport. After all, no REAL people (read: people with single-user machines and nailed-up IP's) get hurt by such tactics. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux | know that music is a higher revelation branden@ecn.purdue.edu | than all wisdom and philosophy. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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