[81239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon is easily fooled by spamming zombies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Wed Jun 1 17:41:47 2005
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:41:15 -0700
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200506011802.j51I2POX007820@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> "Anything from anywhere, even if it's from a hijacked box in Korea, can forward
> through our server as long as it has a 'totallybusticated@ISP.net' From: on it,
> but if one of our own customers tries to send through the server with a From:
> that says 'customer@vanity.domain' they can't even if they pass an SMTP AUTH
> check and prove they're ISP.net's customer..."
>
> And that's borked and wrong.
This is old news.
Years old. I think it might have dated back to before @gte.net addresses
became deprecated.
But I thought VZ had fixed the problem.
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