Oddly, I tried to give a girl my SIMS address ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ip.org) the other day, for her to whitelist it in SpamAssassin (which seems to have deleted my last two mails to her, in the past few months), and SA refused to accept it as a valid address. Another person successfully got SA to whitelist it, so I dunno what hers' problem was. *shrugs* Just gave her my ISP address - just that that one doesn't match my IRC nick.
Some scripts that validate email addresses reject any that include a hyphen. I have seen this on a couple of e-commerce sites. Perhaps this poorly written code has been used in a script used to populate the Spam Assassin "database" (not sure how SA works).
> Because I sure have, and it's probably attributable to n00bs connecting theirbrand-new yet still-inadequately-patched Windows boxes up to the net. So many new zombie relays to be exploited...
Hmm... but how would anyone send mail via these? Surely people don't go installing/activating a mail server on their machine as soon as they get it? Is this a suggestion that one can make use of a worm/virus to install a micro SMTP server on a Windows machine, or activate IIS's SMTP system?
This seems to be the single most common source of spam for me: home users on always-on broadband connections with hijacked machines. Usually a trojan that turns them into zombies. Some ISPs (such as Sympatico.ca) try to defeat this by blocking port 25 on user connections to the net, forcing you to use their mail server.
-- Neil
Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON, Canada K2H 6B1 Tel: (613) 829-4668
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