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Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.



On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:20:01 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> said: 

> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
>> I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain
>> name.
>>
>> Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was
>> running a C-R system.

> A fair proportion of my spam comes from debian.org addresses;
> spammers are becoming more adept at forging sender addresses,
> frequently by pulling addresses from e.g. web pages and using one
> address as the source and the others as the target, so the
> recipients are likely to know the alleged sender.

> I predict that challenge-response systems will become increasingly
> less useful as time goes on due to this trend.

	Good point. Additionally, a number of developers do not
 actively use the @debian.org address (though I do, when responding to
 Debian related email).

	manoj
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