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Re: Who Are The Good Guys?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Thu May 15 20:00:17 1997

Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:47:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Hazen Mueller <zorch@orbit.hooked.net>
To: elanda@comstar.net, dgs@us.net, nanog@merit.edu
X-Envelope-To: elanda@comstar.net

>Maybe in this case you were being sharked, but before we got everything
>clamped down on our servers we saw a number of spammers who were 'multi-
>hopping' their UCE and including faking headers and sending false HELO data.

That reminds me, I've seen spammers using SMTP route-addrs, which would create
this multi-hop effect through multiple relays.

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Scott Hazen Mueller              zorch@wenet.net          +1 415 281 6550 x269
     Vice President Engineering, Whole Earth Networks (Hooked and The Well)


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