full-disclosure - FW: Tim recommended you

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From: brian at pc-radio.com (Brian McWilliams)
Subject: FW: Tim recommended you

At 04:09 PM 9/8/2003, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote:
>spam doesn't have anything to do with security

Random complaints about spammering may have no place on F-D, but spamming 
has *everything* to do with security.

1. Spammers usually rely on open mail relays to send their junk e-mails.

2. Spammers often use insecure FormMail scripts to send their junk e-mails.

3. Spammers recently have begun sending "net-send" or Windows Messenger 
spams targeting folks on Windows PCs without adequate firewalls or port 
settings.

4. Spammers use social engineering techniques such as spoofed "From" lines 
in their messages.

I'm sure there are other techniques I'm forgetting. But you get the idea.

B.