[Mimedefang] OT: Email web form exploits

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 10:25, John wrote:
> >
> >What would you like them to do?
> 
> Be aware.  None of us have an overall picture of the security issues of our 
> Nation.  Only selected groups have that knowledge.  I am just going to feed 
> them some data.  What they do with it is up to them.  The persistence of 
> this issue is the key factor here.  I personally have never had a spammer 
> piss around for days on end.  Too many other easy marks out there.  Maybe 
> somebody in a more dense area of the world with more top site exposure is 
> used to this, but here in Blgs, we are not.  Maybe it's just our turn in 
> the barrel, but it is extremely unusual activity in our little pew.
> 
> Noteworthy to say the least.

I think you've just been lucky so far.  If you have forms that allow
the post'ed data to provide arbitrary destination addresses and content
you can pretty much expect someone to fill your bandwidth sending junk.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com