[3697] in bugtraq
Re: A security issue of a different kind.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Piete Brooks)
Wed Nov 27 13:26:53 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:51:24 +0000
Reply-To: Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
From: Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
X-To: Alan Brown <alan@manawatu.gen.nz>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:07:41 +1300.
<Pine.SUN.3.90.961127140422.294r-100000@papaioea.manawatu.gen.nz>
> Turning off your mail dameon's facility for being used as a mail relay
> will help cut down on it by reducing the paths the spammers can use to
> inject their poison into the mail system.
>
> Sendmail 8.8.x has the facility to refuse mail from "bad domains" as well.
>
> It's easy to do. Why does noone do it?
Do you mean "noone", "few sites" or "not all sites" ?
Have you inspected "Blocking spam email for an entire site" under the section
"Practical Tools to Boycott Spam" on http://www.vix.com/spam/ (EU mirror
available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/spam/) ?
