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Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Lawlor)
Tue Oct 28 16:05:25 1997

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:41:25 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Phil Lawlor <phil@agis.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971028143402.15058@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>

At 02:34 PM 10/28/97 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>Properly configured sendmail's do this, mostly.
						^^^^^^

I am not a sendmail expert, but I am told that it is in the forgery area
that it could be improved.  Forgery and relay hijacking seem to be the
largest areas of abuse.  If these areas could be improved, it could go a
long way to solving the problem.


Phil Lawlor
President
AGIS
Voice - 313-730-1130
Fax   - 313-563-6119

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