At 11:01 AM -0800 4/4/03, Nickle, Michael wrote:
This being said, I think that the forgery problem has the potential to
become huge. What if biffy the spam king decided to use ibm.com or doj.gov
Potential? I used to spend several hours a week doing nothing but
dealing with the problems caused by forged return addresses. Phone
calls to my home-office line at 4 in the morning. DoS attacks in
response to the spam. Crashed servers due to all of AOL's servers
bouncing it back all at once. Threats to me and my family....
Fortunately the problem has died off as spammers have moved to using
free-email services in their return addresses. But it could very
easily come back.
This isn't a new problem.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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