On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:42:41 -0500, Scott Kitterman
<spf2(_at_)kitterman(_dot_)com> wrote:
http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html
Worth reading. Seems reasonably ept from an technical perspective.
Already read it. I guess I'm a little concerned in that they seem to
feel the following:
1) open relays are ok;
2) Consider this little tidbit:
"The activist campaign software then sends the email on her behalf,
putting the letter-writer's email address in the "from" field but
sending it from servers at the activist organization providing the
service. Unfortunately, emails sent in this fashion appear "spoofed"
to email authentication software because the sender's domain is
different from the domain where the email originates."
I'm sorry, it doesn't appear to be spoofed..... it is spoofed. And if
the domain owner publishes a record (of whatever sort) stating which
servers can send mail on their behalf then the activist (or any other)
organization deserves what they get.
Some of what they say is true and some of it is simply nonsense.
Mike