bogus emails looking for money

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:
>
> Even worse is the hijacking of from addresses. I'm not sure how to
> prevent that.

There are some partly technical, partly social things like DKIM that you
can deploy on your domains to try to help improve the system as a whole
(not your system, *the* system)--some receiving servers honour it now,
and adoption will presumably accelerate more as it accelerates more....

My first suggestion, though--and the easiest to implement--would be
toward addressing the more `social' issues that allow these problems
to bootstrap: stop calling it "hijacking"--you wouldn't use that term
for USPS-based mail fraud, because it would mean something completely
different if you did ("someone hijacked my PO box and sent postcards
claiming to be me").

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