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Re: [Asrg] In case anyone thought Barry was exaggerating

Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> Thu, 26 June 2003 21:27 UTC

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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:25:41 -0400

At 05:22 PM 6/26/2003 -0400, Chris Lewis wrote:

>Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
>>Well, this raises an interesting issue that I mentioned before - if a 
>>virus takes over someone's email client, lets say Outlook, and starts 
>>sending spam from that person's account which is legit, there isn't much 
>>we can do. Someone else suggested that imposing a rate limit and notifing 
>>the customer in case the limit is reached, would be a possible solution.
>
>Ah, but the email _isn't_ legit.  You're conflating "valid sender" with 
>"non-spam".

Thanks for pointing this out - valid sender does not mean non-spam.

>See the C&W Rep on the FTC Spam Panel on "The future of spam" session, 
>where he talks about these things.
>
>Very chilling.
>
>And also very entertaining.  He's a great speaker.

I will take a look, would you have a link by any chance?

Yakov 


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