Search news.admin.net-abuse.{sightings,email} and you'll find reports
about mail that was not forged in any sense and by people who do not
seem to have a habit of lying.
No, you made the assertion. It is up to you to supply the evidence.
Go search some mailing list is not a valid means of supporting such
a claim.
on what evidence I have no
idea. ALL the spam purporting to come from hotmail that I have
checked has been forged. That is 100%, not 10%. Same for yahoo.
How do you check to see that a message with Hotmail or Yahoo envelope
or header From value is forged? That the IP address of the
SMTP client
sending the message is not Yahoo's or Microsoft's does no
imply anything
about the question. That the IP address is that of an open relay or
proxy also does not say whether the headers are forged.
Ah I get it, you think that Microsoft would engage in an easily
detected criminal activity and nobody would have reported it to
the press by now. That does not seem very likely to me.
I have seen more plausible stories on alt.conspiracy.
More likely is that something like what this 419 fraud reporting
site describes is going on:
[SPAM-FREE SITE
We do NOT spam. Various multi-level marketers and other criminals have
recently sent out spam impersonating us, and having our return e-mail
address, so that people would complain about spam and cause us to be shut
down (a/k/a "joe job"). These multi-level marketers and other criminals have
engaged in this form of cyber-terrorism because our telling the truth about
their fraudulent schemes was hurting their ability to sell to new victims.
Fortunately, our ISP now recognizes that these fake spams are bogus and
ignores them, and additionally we are duplicating this site on numerous
other servers (including "hardened" servers as well as our own proprietary
servers) so that we cannot be harmed by these multi-level marketers and
other criminals. Death to Spammers!]
- "SPEWS recently listed the whole of UUNET."
Sorry, that did actually happen. One of the servers hit by that blacklisting
was one of our own servers that hosts a bunch of IETF mailing lists out of
VeriSignLabs. People were demanding that we move to an ISP that was not
blacklisted. We sent out messages telling people to stop using a blacklist
run by anonymous cretins.
Phill
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