[95386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Fri Mar 16 14:25:11 2007
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:21:30 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45FA03F6.3050200@mind.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:41:58PM -0700, S. Ryan wrote:
> However, while it's not really above me to do the same, he could
> have removed the email address so spammers aren't adding to that guys
> list of problems.
Anti-spam strategies based on concealment and/or obfuscation of addresses
are no longer viable. (For a variety of reasons, including harvesting
from public sources, harvesting from private sources such as compromised
systems, and the deployment of abusive, spam-supporting tactics such as
callbacks/sender address verification.)
Yes, I know there are counter-examples, I have my own collection of them.
But they're exceptions, not the rule.
---Rsk
