RB> From: "Robert Bononno" 

>> yes... it is for protection from inbound spam... this way, providers can set
>> their SMTP server to just drop the connection before receiving the spam and
>> loosing that bandwidth...

 RB> Yes, but it also blocks all the thousands of legitimate
 RB> messages from that address (like mine). Basically, a spammer
 RB> can co-opt or hijack an IP block this way, by using it to
 RB> transmit spam. This happens to lots of legitimate ISPs though.
 RB> I get plenty of spam from AOL, Netscape.net, etc. Even on my

that spam is not from those places... those headers are forged and many
times the machine name is "faked" to look like one of them...
especially, never believe the FROM: line in the message... spamcop is your
friend!

)\/(ark

 RB> home machine, I can't realistically block all incoming mail
 RB> from those sources, since I have friends and clients who use
 RB> them. That is my quibble with tools like SpamCop. The innocent
 RB> suffer for the guilty.

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