Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:21:50AM +1000, Darryl Luff wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:35 am, Steve Lamb wrote:
Trade offs, no doubt.
> - I have a few email addresses. When I send email from home that is work
> related, I set my From: address to my work email. When I send
> sourceforge-related stuff, I use my sourceforge address. This mail would be
> bounced using any of these systems because the mail gets sent from my home
> machine.
Have to use a smart host for all your sending. Seems like a pain, but
now I send all my mail form a single host.
>
> - Implementation is optional. If I'm sending SPAM, I only need to find one
> domain in the world that doesn't have this system implemented, and send all
> my spam using From addresses in that domain. Remember that this domain only
> has to exist, it doesn't need to even have an email system.
The idea is you use it with some blocking list, right?
> - And they assume that DNS is secure and un-spoofable.
I do sender callouts, too. If someone hijacked DNS that would show up.
Or do you mean something else?
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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org
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