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Re: [Asrg] Some data on the validity of MAIL FROM addresses

"Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortelnetworks.com> Sat, 31 May 2003 03:58 UTC

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Scott Nelson wrote:

> I know striker.ottawa.on.ca has a lot of addresses on a lot of spam lists,
> but checking the last 20,000 spams I received, not a single one 
> has the word "striker" in it anywhere.

I had an opportunity to compare striker with our spamtraps.  They were 
forging each other.

We have 1/1000th the number of users as AOL.  Our email addresses are 
being forged several thousand times per day...

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