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Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Wed Sep 8 08:54:04 2004

In-Reply-To: <20040908122130.GA14345@gsp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 13:52:59 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> For the second one: no.  Because knowing that sender is unforged/real
> doesn't, in and of itself, do you any good *with respect to stopping 
spam*.
> You ALSO need a way to know that 56trf5.com is a spam source domain.

I see that 56trf5.com is a real domain. Does this mean that
the domain name registries and DNS are now being polluted
with piles of garbage entries in the same way that Google
searches have been polluted with tons of pages full of
nothing but search keywords and ads?

--Michael Dillon

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