Subject: Re: Different "From:" Addresses

From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Jul 1997 22:59:12 +0200

>> Regarding Re: Different "From:" Addresses; Bruce Toews
>> <[email-masked]> adds: 

>> 1) Changing your header isn't only forgery, it's also a possible
>> danger for your own mail system. Nasty things can happen if you do
>> that.
BT> It's only forgery if you try passing off another address as your
BT> own. In the case of what I'm asking about, that would not be the
BT> case.

It's against RFC 1036 2.1.1. Nuff said. The postmaster who has to deal
with your bounces won't ask what caused them or whether or not you got
any kind of kick out of altering your header.

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn
In the doughnut way of life, the core is fixed and the bounded space
around the core is where we make the difference. (Charles Handy)