By Dan Ilett
Published: Tuesday 06 September 2005
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Kent
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IT Analyst
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When will they actually start taking decent steps to deal with spam. The majority of spam sent uses spoofed email addresses, surely this can only be perceived as deception? In the email header there is still the IP address of the source domain, there are plenty of tools available to check whether the email address matches the source domain. Just implementing those measures would eliminate at least 50% of spam. Why on earth do these spammers have more rights than the unfortunate recipients. Perhaps, there are arguments for those that send out spam using their true email address and include a genuine removal link but, there should be no protection or rights for those spoofing email addresses or using bogus removal links.
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