[2045] in Moira
Re: access service for outgoing mailers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Tue Oct 21 00:33:55 2003
Message-Id: <200310210431.h9L4V5fU002603@unknown.hamachi.org>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
To: Mark Silis <mark@MIT.EDU>
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Silis <mark@MIT.EDU>
of "Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:29:26 EDT." <200310201829.h9KITQx5026955@I-fear-reorgs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:31:05 -0400
(I've been lurking on this list for who knows how long. Tell me to
shut up if I'm not helping).
This is a good change in concept but I suspect that enough MIT.EDU
addreses have been harvested to give it a relatively short lifetime as
a countermeasure; also looks like it may be a double-edged sword in
that once the spammers figure out they need to use valid source
addresses, the users they pick will end up catching the bounces,
annoying them and increasing your support load..
Random related service idea:
For clients not capable of SMTP authentication, questionable mail
dropped onto outgoing could be "quarantined", with a notice
delivered to the MIT user ostensibly sending it, with an
authenticated web service to allow a user release the messages they
want to release...
- Bill
