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

["Eric D. Williams" <[e-mail]>]

I see major bounce back from spammer addresses - forgery? (this is anecdotal) 
To me this is not unusual.

-e

On Monday, May 19, 2003 9:55 AM, Kee Hinckley [SMTP:[e-mail]] 
wrote:
> At 8:25 PM -0700 5/18/03, Scott Nelson wrote:
> >I would expect that /if/ the majority of return addresses are forged,
> >then the spammer would pick the domain at random from their collection
> >of lists.
>
> As I noted in my mail.  This appears to be happening now--although I
> had not seen symptoms of it before.  Is anyone else starting to see
> low-level occasional bounce back from spam?
>
> Prior to that, all of the bounce-back instances I had heard of or
> experienced (and I used to get one or two a week) were major--where
> the entire spam load got sent out with the same return address.
>
>
> --
> Kee Hinckley
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>
> I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
> responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
> everyone else's.
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