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RE: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail
From: "Ryan Counts" <rcounts () parkplacetexas com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:05:49 -0600
I can't wait to receive my first NDR due to insufficient postage... I'm a little curious about a few aspects of this : 1) What happens if a machine on your network gets botted? Is your company responsible for the postage of all these emails? 2) I'm guessing auditing this in any way - to verify they are billing you correctly for example - could get a little cumbersome. 3) What about personal emails from a company's employees to members of AOL? You mean I gotta pay for my people to send jokes to their ex-girlfriend's sister-in-law's roommate? 3) Is it just me, or does it seem that the ultimate result of this will be improved virii? Most of the spam I receive today seems to be from infected machines, which are sending emails that from a technical standpoint can look completely legit and trace back only to the infected machine. From that perspective, it seems that this is only going to increase financial burdens on small companies that can't afford good workstation security. Hmmmm, maybe they could file a class-action against Microsoft for security holes... As it is, right now the biggest problem in filtering spam is verifying the source, so how does this help that in any way? 4) Maybe we should follow campaign election laws and force all emails to have a video attachment of the sender saying, "I am so and so, and I approve of this message," while also holding a credit card up to the camera... -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Drsolly Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:29 PM To: Stephen J. Smoogen Cc: FunSec [List] Subject: Re: [funsec] Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
On 2/6/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
wrote:
All email is equal, but some email is more equal than others ...Nothing wrong with that. In England, we have First Class Post and
Second
Class Post. We also have a Bulk post rate, and a bulk sorted post
rate,
and oodles of others. This is a step twoards the system I've been advocating. An economics solution to an economics problem.I am sorry but I am having to return this email COD. It did not sufficiently entertain me. Please pay in pounds stirling the cost of sending this bulk shipment to you.
Please put your invoice for the above in the post and I will pass it to our accounts department for appropriate treatment. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- RE: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail, (continued)
- RE: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Gary Funck (Feb 07)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 07)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail der Mouse (Feb 08)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Stephen J. Smoogen (Feb 07)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Drsolly (Feb 07)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Stephen J. Smoogen (Feb 08)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Vicky Røde (Feb 07)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Bill Weiss (Feb 07)
- RE: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Drsolly (Feb 08)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Stephen J. Smoogen (Feb 08)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail der Mouse (Feb 08)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Dude VanWinkle (Feb 08)
- Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail Drsolly (Feb 08)