[78764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IBM to offer service to bounce unwanted e-mail back to the computers that sent them
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Tue Mar 22 13:59:44 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Andreas Ott <andreas@naund.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:59:12 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20050322102437.G1033@naund.org> (Andreas Ott's message of "Tue,
22 Mar 2005 10:24:37 -0800")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Andreas Ott:
> http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/22/technology/ibm_spam/
>
> And I thought they knew better by now that a hijacked windows pc won't
> accept mail. [...]
The CNN article tries to describe IBM's proposed system, but fails
badly. IBM's description is available at:
<http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fairuce>
It doesn't seem too bad, as long as you don't use it for blocking
email. The C/R part is, of course, an unfortunate mistake.
