Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!oberon!skat.usc.edu!blarson From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers. Message-ID: <5392@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 14:24:11 EST Article-I.D.: oberon.5392 Posted: Wed Nov 25 14:24:11 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 13:15:38 EST References: <408@minya.UUCP> <256@irs1.UUCP> Sender: nobody@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Organization: USC AIS, Los Angeles Lines: 24 In article <256@irs1.UUCP> rshwake@irs1.UUCP (rshwake) writes: > I don't know if the original poster's intent was to suggest that >prepending lines beginning with "From " with ">" constitutes damage. I don't see how it could be considered anything but damgage. >Since >the "From " string is used as a delimiter, separating one message from >another, SOME means is required to prevent lines beginning with such a >string from signaling the start of a new message. This is true in some mail implementations. They should NOT mess with outgoing messages or messages just passing through, since not everyone is using such poor software. > More critically, it would be TOO easy to fake a message from some >user if such potential delimiters were not masked. They could just figure out a way to delimit messages without messing with the text of the message. This isn't even an invertable bogosity. -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson blarson@skat.usc.edu Prime mailing list (requests): info-prime-request%fns1@ecla.usc.edu