Text 1686, 32 rader
Skriven 2005-01-06 15:58:28 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
   Kommentar till text 1669 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Spam
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JG>>If you have your own SMTP server you can fake the From:
JG>>addresses as well the source machine.  However, the
JG>>headers collect information about which machine accepted
JG>>the mail from what machine so there's still a reasonable
JG>>trail back. There are plenty of ways to spoof if you have
JG>>the desire...

 JE> If there is a "reasonable trail back" why haven't the
 JE> government or the US ISPs done some tracing and
 JE> identifying of the spam originators and shut them (US
 JE> ones at least)?  Seems like it would be to the benefit
 JE> of the major ISP here in the US to reduce the spam
 JE> traffic since it is such a high percentage of the total
 JE> email.

can you say "Distributed Spamming" and at the same time, remember about those
worms with their own SMTP engines...

i'm personally aware that there is some type of "network" of owned machines
that get templates sent to them, somehow... they take those templates and fill
in the variables... they also get lists of names to send to... once they have
both, they fire off their templated driven spam...

i've personally seen numerous different spams that all have the same layout and
basic wording but they were for distinctly different things...

this templating stuff came to my attention when i received some spam where some
of the template variables weren't filled in as they should have been...

)\/(ark

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