I find this *really* annoying

Bob Bell bbell at macroped.com
Fri Apr 8 22:08:00 EDT 2005


On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 04:22:49PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> There are, of course, those viruses which send themselves to everyone
> in your address book, and use your ISP's servers to send the mail.
> None of these schemes (including blocking the IP addresses of dynamic
> customers) do anything to solve that problem.  As such, I'll exclude
> that class of compromises from the rest of the discussion.

I'm just concerned that if we settle on SPF/DomainKeys/whatever and it
gains wide-spread adoption, then we'll see spammers adopt the technique
of utilizing a compromised machine's configuration to send mail.
I suppose at least then the spammer will clearly be breaking the law.
Unless, I suppose, they try to hide themselves behind a EULA on some
time of Adware/Spyware type program.  <sigh>

    -- Bob



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