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Re: [Asrg] Re: 6. Proposals: LMTP proposals]

2004-03-30 16:39:22
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:16:32AM +0000, Fridrik Skulason wrote:

   A spammer gains access to a compromised computer, and determines
   the mail address of the owner of the machine.  The spam is then
   sent out in the name of the owner of the machine, just as if
   the real owner was actually pressing the keys.  

In other words, widespread implementation of LMAP (which would be a good
thing) would lead to more compromised machines (which would be a bad 
thing) ;-)

What solutions are there that don't suffer this problem?

(greylisting and other sorts of limiters might not, so much, but
that's the sort or things that "owning" machines get around, too.)

mm

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