full-disclosure - Swen Really Sucks

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Message-ID: <20030925035153.GA9204@dreams.soze.net>
From: justin-fulldisclosure at soze.net (Justin)
Subject: Swen Really Sucks

Evan Borgstrom (2003-09-24 14:59Z) wrote:

> http://tmda.sourceforge.net
> 
> Blacklist centric message system.
> 
> I haven't seen a single swen message yet. It doesn't solve the bandwidth
> problem but at least it solves the problem of the messages appearing in
> your inbox.

TMDA is terrible.  A procmail recipe can easily autorespond, and then if
a spammer spoofs mail from an email address where someone's implemented
such a thing, the spam gets through and may even be whitelisted,
bypassing ordinary spam checking.  The spammer could even set such a
system up and use its address for all from: addresses.

Terrible.

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know all the evil he does.          obey their parents, and everyone
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld       is writing a book.  -Cicero