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Subject: Re: Someone in this forum is selling email addresses (OT)

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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