[59369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Weird email messages with "re:movie" and "re:application" in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Jun 26 14:24:19 2003
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:45:54 -0400
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>,
Mark Segal <MSegal@Corporate.FCIBroadband.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030626033756.A43F07B4D@berkshire.research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 23:37 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin"
<smb@research.att.com> wrote:
> And I've gotten bounces from mail allegedly from me. It's not L3's
> fault; this particular worm forges From: lines on its email.
fault is debatable. Because forgeries are now so common, particularly in
worms, why would you send these notifications to anyone other than the
recipient? Let the human decide if the right thing to do is notify the
sender.
