Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:25:57 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | 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.
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