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Yep. And then there are the ones that come to you via a long chain of forwards (that almost read like a history of one's early academic career) where you no lon
by glangdale 7y ago
Yep. And then there are the ones that come to you via a long chain of forwards (that almost read like a history of one's early academic career) where you no longer have any ability to send mail from the account that they have on file - some of the older mailing list software made it impossible to unsubscribe if you couldn't send stuff from the old address.
- mnw21cam 7y agoI would point out that there is nothing in the SMTP standard stopping anyone from sending stuff from any email address.
- glangdale 7y agoWhile a good deal of our entertainment circa 1993 (Computer Science Honours, Sydney University) centered around exploiting this delightful fact (close second: unattended terminals), I had long since figured that forging emails off a open SMTP port wasn't really still A Thing.
- mnw21cam 7y agoOh, it most definitely still is A Thing. There have been a few notable attempts to stop it happening, but none of them have really worked completely, and they only apply to some from-domains.
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoO'rly? Try sending a mail from satya.nadella@microsoft.com to anyone you know.
- TallGuyShort 7y agoMicrosoft operates some of the more well-known of those from domains.
- OJFord 7y agoUse your own domain for email and watch the 'hacker' spam roll in.
- RandomBacon 7y agoI do, and get no such spam.