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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	davids@webmaster.com, jroland@roland.net, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The spam problem.
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:25:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020813142557.B12730@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0208121048340.23404-100000@imladris.surriel.com>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:50:35AM -0300

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:50:35AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> It's already happening.  You have no idea how much spam I've
> received "from" Ingo Molnar, Bill Davidsen, Stephen Tweedie
> and you ...
> 
> You probably also have no idea from which countries the spam
> with you in the From: address has been sent ;)
> 
> Recently an anti-spam mailinglist (with members-only posting)
> got flooded by a spammer who wanted to take revenge for his
> N-th cancelled account.  Of course he used From: headers with
> the addresses of many of the list regulars.

The problem requires action on a wider scale where the IETF needs to 
propose a new standard that enforces crypto signatures of message 
content and From: that is tied into DNS.  The current mail standards 
do not have any means to prevent forgeries, even for those organizations 
that want to avoid such abuses.

		-ben
-- 
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-13 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-12  5:01 RE:Re: The spam problem Hell.Surfers
2002-08-12  5:15 ` Jim Roland
2002-08-12  7:35   ` David Schwartz
2002-08-12  7:50     ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12 13:50       ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-13 18:25         ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-08-12 20:24       ` Thunder from the hill
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-12  3:04 Hell.Surfers
2002-08-12  2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  3:18 ` David D. Hagood
2002-08-12  1:44 Hell.Surfers
2002-08-12  1:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  2:22   ` David D. Hagood
2002-08-12  2:12     ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  2:48       ` David D. Hagood
2002-08-12  4:41 ` Jim Roland
2002-08-12  4:50   ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-12  5:11   ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12  8:47   ` Willy Tarreau
     [not found] ` <5.1.0.14.2.20020812064112.00b6b9c0@pop.gmx.net>
2002-08-12  4:48   ` Jim Roland
2002-08-12  5:00     ` Dhr N. Van Alphen
2002-08-12  8:42       ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-12  5:12     ` David S. Miller
2002-08-12 11:23 ` Richard B. Johnson

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