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Re: Falsified "From:" Fields ?? (was: Hi.)

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From: Jason and Heather
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 00:00
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<Dave Mandelin> wrote:
> Mario1@PrimeNet.Com (Mario1-) wrote:
> 
> > If you agree with Primenet policy, then stop forging your email
> > address in the "From" field of your posts. I remember when this 
> > was forbidden around here, and I think the rules should be 
> > enforced. One can not go around selectively deciding which 
> > portion of the rules apply to them, since this just creates chaos.
> 
> and again wrote, in a different thread:
> 
> "It is MY choice to post with my first name, my last name, my
> nickname, or any alias I choose, and if you don't like that, then
> tough shit."

It is your choice whether to cheat and steal too. That doesn't make
it right. On the internet, the "right thing to do" is not defined
by Wilfred Brimley, but by the RFCs. 

According to them, the From: field of your posts may indeed
contain you first name, your last name, your nickname, or an alias.
But it must _also_ contain a valid email address. Yours does not.

You're breaking the rules. 

Now, you can argue that you're breaking the rules for a good reason,
and that this violation of standards doesn't present any real problem
to anybody but spammers, but you can't honestly say that you're 
actually following the standards.

jason


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From: steiners@primenet.com (Jason and Heather)
Subject: Re: Falsified "From:" Fields ?? (was: Hi.)
Date: 1997/05/07
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