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."
next prev parent 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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