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Re: definition of joe job and phishing

2004-03-23 11:53:03

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:35:34AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:

Folks,

I recently did some research on the term Joe-Job and discovered some
ambiguity, or rather, a broader meaning than folks often assume:

Joe Jobbing is the unauthorized use of someone else's email address. It
has two major purposes. One is to redirect an expected mass of error
messages. 

For clarity's sake, when I use the term "joe-job", the above is what I
mean.  Maybe we should call it something different, like
"bounce-bombing", since "joe-job" is vague.

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Mark C. Langston                                    Sr. Unix SysAdmin
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Systems & Network Admin                                SETI Institute
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