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Re: Will New Sendmail Block Remailers?
In <[email protected]>, on 03/17/98
at 08:58 AM, "Robert A. Hayden" <[email protected]> said:
>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.
Well I think this may add to the problem. All the spamers need to do is
start faking real e-mail addresses in the headers. So now you will have
alot of users bearing the brunt of anti-spam attacks and complaints who
had nothing to do with it.
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