[99264] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Criminals, The Network, and You [Was: Something Else]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Sep 12 20:54:37 2007
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:48:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D7D0907E265A834D995B9B4FC0078D4E76B022@aristotle.boi.corp.us.digitar.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> your customers. As an example, it's not a suitable answer to our law
> firm customers who are critically-dependent on receiving e-mail from
> hopelessly broken senders.
I've always wondered why the bad guys can't wrap postal packages correctly
or spell.
http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/pos84.pdf
On the other hand, if you get a package that looks like that, is it really
worth taking the chance? Appearences can be important.
Hopeless broken senders seem to figure out how to fix things when their
critically important (sent via an unreliable e-mail) messages keep getting
returned to sender.
