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Re: Draft Agenda for WG meeting at RIPE31

  • To: (Piet Beertema)
  • From: (Gert Doering)
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 12:12:17 +0200 (MET DST)
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Hi,

Piet Beertema wrote:
>         Legal status and activities in various countries.
>         Is forgery in "MAIL From:" OK or is that in fact illegal?
> Is it illegal to put someone else's name and address
> on the envelope of a letter? My guess is that there
> is no country in this world where that is illegal.

If people start sending paper mail with forged adresses on it, and 
receivers have to PAY for it (without being able to refuse it), it will 
be illegal very quickly.

Gert Doering
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