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Re: Why keep people thinking HELO checks provide a loophole?

2004-02-25 14:02:39
Ahh- but if they do that, then the RBL's will pick it up, and quickly publish the fact to the world. If all it takes is publishing a list of domains to block, I think we'd all be happy.

If this came to pass, we could all colaborate on a RBL to say these people are abusing SPF disposable domains. The first people to get the spam might actually have to deal with it, but large ISP's could help publish that domain, and detect it based on number of emails coming from that domain. If they have to switch domains every few minutes due to rate limiting, it would get much more expensive very quickly... not to mention having some method of tracing them back via the Registrar... Also, it generally takes a few days to set up a domain, which would also be pain for them..

Matthew



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On Feb 25, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Fridrik Skulason wrote:


...basically forcing him to use "disposable" domains. That is, many spammers might do just that - use a domin *once* for a single big spam run, and not
care if the domain gets backlisted a few days later.