[77764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. Dreger)
Thu Feb 3 21:24:08 2005
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 02:21:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
Cc: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <924f2928050203173764cf0100@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
JF> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:37:29 -0500
JF> From: Jason Frisvold
JF> Ouch .. Then spammers may start using a From: matching the SMTP auth
JF> user, and effectively joe-jobbing the user.. Ick..
Exactly. The user then loses mail sending ability, but other services
remain functional.
Eddy
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