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Re: RE: Forwarders

2004-01-12 08:07:47
Hi, 

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:06, R. Scott Perry wrote:

Assuming about one of a thousand mail addresses in a spammer's address 
list is a spam trap, a spammer may be able to send one or two thousand 
spams (but certainly not billions!) using his newly acquired domain before 
the domain gets blacklisted.

That is a very, very important point that I hadn't seen come up 
before.  That helps a *lot* with the "But spammers will just publish their 
own SPF records" argument.
                                                 -Scott

please be serious. If a single vote saying a spam trap has been hit
would be sufficient to block an e-mail server, this would open up a
simple way to shut down virtually all e-mail traffic within minutes. You
wouldn't want that kind of DOS attack, would you?

Best wishes and regards, 

Ernst

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