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Re: [Ipsec] spam
>>>>> "Perry" == Perry E Metzger <perry@piermont.com> writes:
Perry> Yoav Nir <ynir@netvision.net.il> writes:
>> Anyway, as has been pointed out before, the letters mostly seem to
>> originate from legitimate subscribers. The emails and names can
>> easily be harvested from web archives and other methods. Since
>> SMTP is basically insecure, anyone can pretend to be a list member
>> and send this stuff to the list.
Perry> However, those of us who run mailing lists find that although
Perry> anyone "can" forge a list member's address, it is almost
Perry> unheard of that it actually happens. Restricting my lists to
Perry> subscribers only has eliminated 100% of the spam going to
Perry> them.
That certainly would not be true for the IPsec list -- I've looked
over enough IPsec message headers to say that. FOr IPsec, the
percentage of forged addresses is clearly quite large.
paul
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