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Re: What *are* they smoking?
From: David B Harris <david () eelf ddts net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:17:15 -0400
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:45:26 -0700 Fred Baker <fred () cisco com> wrote:
At 04:18 PM 9/15/2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:Even worse of this is that you can't verify domain names under .net any more for 'existence' as every .net domain suddenly has a A record and then can be used for spamming...so, every spammer in the world spams versign. The down side of this is ... what? I don't remember...
The problem is the (common) method of invalidating spam mails by checking that the originating domain exists. If said domain is .net (and soon .com), that check will no longer be useful.
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- RE: What *are* they smoking? Jeff S Wheeler (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Matthew S. Hallacy (Sep 15)
- RE: What *are* they smoking? Jeroen Massar (Sep 15)
- RE: What *are* they smoking? Adam 'Starblazer' Romberg (Sep 15)
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- RE: What *are* they smoking? John Ferriby (Sep 15)
- RE: What *are* they smoking? Fred Baker (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? David B Harris (Sep 15)
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- Re: What *are* they smoking? Chris Adams (Sep 15)
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- Re: What *are* they smoking? Chris Adams (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Chris Adams (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Tomas Lund (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Mans Nilsson (Sep 16)