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Re: Will New Sendmail Block Remailers?
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, John Young wrote:
> Markoff in the NYT reports today on the release of a new
> Sendmail upgrade by author Eric Allman that will block
> spam by checking the legitimacy of the originating address
> before delivery.
>
> The report claims that spam is up to 10% of e-mail worldwide,
> And that Sendmail is used on 75% of the computers that route
> e-mail, all of which are being fitted with the new program.
>
> What are the chances that this will affect remailers or other
> means of eternal anonymity?
Depends on how the remailer is set up.
For example, I own the domain "geek.net". If I set up a remailer and
messages resolve to "[email protected]", I suspect it will get through.
I may need to also have an alias that /dev/nulls messages to
[email protected], but that is still a legitimate mailing address.
I think what they are trying to stop are spammers that have a return
address like "[email protected]" or "[email protected]". Those
wouldn't resolve and would just get shitcanned.
IMHO, there's nothing _toooo_ sinister here, yet. But vigilance is
suggested.
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