[Mimedefang] how to undo Verisigns mess

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Sep 16 08:21:01 EDT 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> has anybody thought about what to make the best out of the mess
> Verisign made in respect to SPAM scoring / sender address domain
> checking?

For now, I suggest just waiting and seeing.  Once a large number of spammers
start sending mail from faked domains, the machine 64.94.110.11 will be
rather busy (to put it mildly) handling all the bounces.

Verisign have more-or-less set themselves up for a distributed DoS attack
with this move.

--
David.



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