In <Pine.LNX.3.95.980317085417.19255A-100000@geek.net>, on 03/17/98 at 08:58 AM, "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@means.net> said:
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, John Young wrote:
Markoff in the NYT reports today on the release of a new Sendmail upgrade by author Eric Allman that will block spam by checking the legitimacy of the originating address before delivery.
The report claims that spam is up to 10% of e-mail worldwide, And that Sendmail is used on 75% of the computers that route e-mail, all of which are being fitted with the new program.
What are the chances that this will affect remailers or other means of eternal anonymity?
Depends on how the remailer is set up.
For example, I own the domain "geek.net". If I set up a remailer and messages resolve to "anonymous@geek.net", I suspect it will get through. I may need to also have an alias that /dev/nulls messages to anonymous@geek.net, but that is still a legitimate mailing address.
I think what they are trying to stop are spammers that have a return address like "fakename@fakedomain.com" or "your@best.friend". Those wouldn't resolve and would just get shitcanned.
IMHO, there's nothing _toooo_ sinister here, yet. But vigilance is suggested.
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