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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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