[92046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: comast email issues, who else has them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Fri Sep 1 23:37:04 2006
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 03:35:10 GMT
To: davidu@everydns.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Ack: X-Originating-From should be mandatory.
$.02,
- ferg
-- David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net> wrote:
On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> I never understood why Gmail didn't put an X-Originating-From =
> header in mail sent out by web users.
Seconded! It may not be a requirement but the omission is certainly =
inconsistent with most web-based email services, particularly a =
popular one like Gmail. A lot of abuse ends at a dead-end because =
trying to deal with security/abuse @ gmail is a losing cause.
-david
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