I saw a message from a guy who's ISP pings the return address and, if it responds, lets it through. His SPAM went to almost zero. It didn't mention how many complaints he got from those to block ping, but this guy sure sounded happy.
Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Ken Barber wrote: > >> Another item that has been in the security news in the last few >> weeks or months: spammers are now using worms to infect machines >> to send spam. Same thing: their worms install a simple SMTP >> server on a 'doze box and the unsuspecting user becomes a >> spammer. > >I don't understand why this is in the news. Spammers have been >enthralling zombie boxes for at least two years that I know of. But >now everybody is talking about it. Whatever. > >> Since 'doze can never really be secured, I'm afraid this is going >> to be an ongoing problem as long as millions of clueless people >> continue using it on Internet-connected machines. > >The Reverse MX internet draft would go a long way toward curbing this. >RMX is one of five or six new technologies proposed by the IETF's >Anti-Spam Research Group [2] which collectively, if widely adopted, >would make life more difficult for spam. But it'll take years, >unfortunately. > >I'm looking forward to creating RMX records for the domains I >administer. > > >[1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-02.txt >[2] http://www.irtf.org/charters/asrg.html > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Voice - 541-689-9159 FAX - 541-463-1627 Eugene, Oregon _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
