Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:40:32 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Brad Knowles" <blk@skynet.be>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: ORBS vs MAPS Message-ID: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKGEDIJNAA.davids@webmaster.com> In-Reply-To: <v04220800b59c61ec5cf4@[10.0.1.2]>
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> At 5:48 PM -0700 2000/7/19, David Schwartz wrote: > > > ORBS consistently attempts to pass email through other > > people's machines > > through the use of spoofed headers. This is illegal in many > > jurisdictions. > > IMO, a single spoofed header is SPAM and network abuse. > No, they don't spoof any headers at all. In fact, they clearly > label all the test e-mail they send as being from their testing > server. > They do try all the same standard tricks on the sender and > recipient addresses that junkmailers are known to try, to see if the > machine in question might not properly look inside quotes, or > mistakenly think that they can trust the claimed envelope sender as > opposed to looking at the IP address, etc.... > However, this isn't spoofing headers. So you are saying that if they are testing 'mail.foo.com', they don't try claiming that their mail is from 'foo@mail.foo.com'? If not, they wouldn't catch open relays that allow any mail with a local sender address. I find that _very_ hard to believe. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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