Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 06:45:43 09/11/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 19:55:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: [...] >For about 3 weeks I averaged about 50,000 email messages per day. Some >idiot SPAMmer found the email address "majordomo@cis.uab.edu" and chose to >use that as his spoofed return address to avoid SPAM filters. Unfortunately >for me, he had about 50,000 _bad_ email addresses. His SPAM bounced. Right >to me. I had to learn about procmail to get that under control. :) Wow! I have 100 per day, "only". Only a few of them are bounces becaused of a forged "from". Yet, I do use procmail. >It is a serious problem. It won't be long before we have some regulations >with teeth in them that make this extremely expensive for those that get >caught... Interesting! Any idea what such "teeth" would look like? Is something in the pipe, already? Heiner
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