[7159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: random thoughts on how I can prevent spammers from using my net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Hunt)
Mon Jan 20 18:40:57 1997
To: ALAN DORN HETZEL JR <dorn@atlanta.net>
cc: NANOG@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:55:41 EST."
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 12:02:25 -0800
From: Peter Hunt <hunt@ipsilon.com>
Sounds like a good strategy.
I'm not sure whether it will handle the case where a spammer uses existing
mailing lists (such as this one). Won't they send one message to the list's
host machine, which propagates it for them? Do spammers often use this
technique?
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