Originally posted by ensigmatic:
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Originally posted by selogic:
I got that same email. The funny thing is that it came from another gun forum that has a personal email address as one of it's perks for paid members. So essentially I sent the email to myself if that makes any sense. Scary shit.
Not really.
Look: The email protocol is fuller of holes than Swiss cheese. I could pick any email address in an SF member's profile and send them an email that would appear to have come from themselves in a New York heartbeat. It's trivial to do.
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Originally posted by selogic:
I took extensive measures to mitigate that from happening again.
Good luck with that. Better people than me have tried to stop it, and I've been in the industry since before there
was an Internet.
It will only be stopped when the email protocol is tightened-up. That's never going to happen because there are
far too many vested interests that profit from it being as broken as it is, and that's the plain truth.
Hint: Many of the people with whom I used to work in the email anti-spam effort are now working for...
wait for it...
Email marketers. Bulk emailers. Or, as some of us like to call them: Spammers for hire.
The very same mechanisms that allow for the kinds of things described here also benefit the "legitimate" bulk email industry.