[124420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Posting from freebie E-mail Accounts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Mar 31 14:05:29 2010
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <5d84173d4e8ab274dd0bef75d79a3f7c.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:04:40 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Daniel Staal wrote:
> On Wed, March 31, 2010 12:14 pm, Leigh Porter wrote:
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>> Until somebody does 'view headers' and sees
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>> /X/-/Sender/-/IP
>> /
>> and oh look, it was sent from 'foobarco' ;-)
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> That depends on how they are sending it, of course. Webmail usually =
just
> has the IP of the host, and I imagine quite a few others around here =
have
> their own personal servers that could also be used for this, one way =
or
> another.
GMail doesn't even add that header, so you don't have to worry where you =
are browsing from.
<
cue thread about Google's arrogance that they know better how to stop =
spam than anyone else;
cue thread about Google's complete inability to stop spam even close to =
as well as many others;
cue thread about Google's hypocrisy about adding X-Sender-IP on IMAP =
injected mail, but not through web mail;
cue thread about people talking about e-mail / spam on NANOG;
cue thread about moving the whole thing to nanog-futures;
cue thread about ....
>
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TTFN,
patrick
> Then of course there are things like Blackberries and iPhones that can
> send email themselves, and are likely to have IP addresses that are =
linked
> to something besides their current location.
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> Daniel T. Staal
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