[Mimedefang] On pinheaded ISP's (sort of OT)

[Philip Prindeville]

David F. Skoll wrote:

>Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>What interest would the victim of the spam have in forging
>>log files?  What does he have to cover up?
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>The alleged victim may not be a victim at all, but might be trying
>to get the person he's complaining about in trouble.
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>We've had a few unfounded accusations that we've been sending
>spam over the last few years; I'm sure it's happened to many others on
>this list.
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>Regards,
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>David.
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Right.  But you'd still be able cross-check his supposed logs
against the contents of your own /var/log/maillog (or whatever).

At least prove that a message was or wasn't sent... and know
what the message size was...  On the other hand, you he could
forge the message contents and that would be harder to
disprove.

-Philip