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Re: Possible virus sending large emails?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 30 May 2002 22:33:44 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org(nospam)
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James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> But most ISP's don't care enough about the damage from virii and spam to put
> in the protocols to do this.
I don't think that's true -- the traffic impacts them directly. It's just a
certain amount of work to configure, not to mention a moving target. We'll
get there eventually.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| (...) What the mail server should be doing isn't informing the "from", since the from header is easily forgable, as anyone who gets spam knows. What they should be doing is sending the warning back to the offending ISP or forwarder. You can verify (...) (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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