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Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail
From: "Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:01:00 -0700
On 2/8/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ryan Counts wrote:I can't wait to receive my first NDR due to insufficient postage... I'm a little curious about a few aspects of this :Well, I don't know how they're doing it, but here's what I'd do:
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?It verifies who the source really is, and that this source has been willing to pay for the email to be delivered.
Sadly.. I think what will happen is that A) It will be designed by a committee B) It will be outsourced to the lowest bidder to committee specs C) The lowest bidder will be making up its funding by having Organized Crime pay for its bank accounts and housing in a Caribbean island with no extradition treaties. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator _______________________________________________ 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 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)