Re: I found this today and iam reporting it to you first!!! (fwd)

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You can do a variation on this one (well sort opf - is a logstanding prob)

basically find two sites whose FW is conf'd to accept all mail and forward
it to the real mailserver. If this mailserver bounces invalid addresses
then you're on your way...

spoof a mail from an invalid address on one end to an invalid address on
the other. and sit back..

the first site will accept the mail (this is the fault - it should reject
if it is to comply with the IETF standard) and pass it inward, the
mailserver then sends an error message to the "sender"  and the same
process occurs at the other end...

Rate of messages depends on bandwidth - but you can expect at least 1/sec...

Of course you can multiply it if you send it to a list of recipients.. :}

cheers,

Bret

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