full-disclosure - Re: Will the spammer please stop!

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Message-ID: <C0C0CDC7.23A05%harlequin@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Jun 23 06:44:36 2006
From: harlequin at earthlink.net (Eric Ericson)
Subject: Re: Will the spammer please stop!

Frankly, I always though the words "best solution" always paired well with
the words "air strike".

But maybe that's just me.

-E2
-- 
Eric Ericson
harlequin@...thlink.net

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Winston
Churchil


> From: "Randal T. Rioux" <randy@...cyonlabs.com>
> Organization: Procyon Labs - IT Security R&D
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:18:47 -0400
> To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Re: Will the spammer please stop!
> 
> Dan B wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Karol Wiesek wrote:
>>> Just add rule to Your procmail or any other stuff and ignore it.
>>> 
>>>   
>> ,,,snip...snip...
>> The best solution I see is sender verification, which I currently use on
>> Postfix and this is the same MTA that is used for the list. It is a
>> minor configuration change. Indeed it causes more traffic(verification
>> of domain initially, and then a brief attempt to connect and send a mail
>> to the sender), but that is nowhere near as much as this spam is generating.
>> 
> 
> The words "best solution" should NEVER be used in the same sentence as
> "sender verification," unless "not" separates them. It is obnoxious and
> places the burden of your lack of effort or knowledge onto the sender.
> 
> Randy
> 
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