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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: The spam problem.
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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."
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