Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com> wrote:
Nah, there's all kinds of ways around that. If it was as simple as grabbing the source address in a sendmail log most of the spammers would have been put out of business a long! time ago.
Well, we're assuming that one needs anonymity for something more than just posting spam. Presumably, if e.g. the US government wants you, they'll subpoena logs and find you.
As to finding them, those socialist bastards at ORBS and the like keep handy lists available.
True enough.
Irrelevant. Forge your source IP headers.
Right. Except that Asymmetric was claiming that one could simply set the SMTP server to one that you believe not to do logging (and implicitly, something that does open relaying) and then just change your "From" header. Forging the source IP address works, but it's outside the scope of Asymmetric's suggestion, which is what I was responding to. -- Riad Wahby rsw@mit.edu MIT VI-2/A 2002 5105