[170464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Mar 27 16:43:16 2014
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:38:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5FFF626E-D993-4B35-AD7B-E43C93DE4D6F@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
>
> Please explain in detail where the fraud potential comes in.
Spammer uses his botnet of zombie machines to send email from each of them
to his own domain using the user's legitimate email address as From:.
Spammer says it was unsolicited and keeps the full $.10/email that victim
users have deposited into this escrow thing.
Sounds a lot more profitable than regular spam.
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