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Re: [Asrg] Report-as-Spam header

Brendan Hide <brendan@swiftspirit.co.za> Mon, 11 June 2012 18:57 UTC

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On 06/11/12 17:00, John Levine wrote:
> The problem is that bad guys can add the same headers as good guys, so
> it would likely be mostly used as a way to deflect complaints away
> from the ISP to the spammer.
You've hit the nail on the head. I suspect a reverse DNS scheme *could* 
be the key here - but, per my other mail, its back to square one.

Thank you for your input.

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