Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:57:00 09/11/03
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On September 11, 2003 at 09:45:43, Heiner Marxen wrote: >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 Something like the new US do-not-call-list. IE if someone calls you and you are on that list, they can be fined $11,000 per call. That makes it not so profitable. :)
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