Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(_at_)plaidworks(_dot_)com> wrote:
she got spam addressed from a user of her mail list. That user seems to
have gotten "something" that caused her machine to send a spam message
to everyone in her address book.
Which indicates a useful definition for spam:
"spam is email which the user of the MUA did not intend to send"
I hadn't thought about it before now, but this seems like a great way
to propogate a spam message, because it works through whitelists and
around subscription blocks on lists nicely, and doesn't require open
relays or open proxies.
I agree. There are many, many machines out there which are
"owned". Many are being used to send spam *without* a MUA.
Alan DeKok.
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