[Gllug] OT: Expedia sends out Spammer-style mail.

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:16:09PM +0000, Christopher Currie wrote:
> No, not their advertising (which you can switch off).
> 
> If respectable companies are doing what follows, where does it end? Why do 
> they want to prevent their genuine customers replying? The mail was a notice 
> of a revised itinerary, which I'd accepted by telephone.
> 
> The To: address is correct, but the From: and the Return-Path: are faked.

Wouldn't this fall foul of the CAN-SPAM act in the US? I thought that
prohibited faking the from: address...

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