[Gllug] Spammers

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:16:48AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> RMX records just guarantee the sender domain is a real domain, nothing
> else. That would have prevented the spammer in this case (see head of
> thread) from forging my email address in their spams.

Sorry, that statement isn't quite true.

RMX records guarantee that you can't forge email from a domain you
don't own or control.

The effect of this is that spammers are forced to register lots of
domains, which increases the cost and risks[*] to them.

Rich.

[*] If they use forged credit card information, the risk to them is
that they are now committing an extra, and quite serious offence.

-- 
Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj
Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - all your business data are belong to you.
"I wish more software used text based configuration files!"
 -- A Windows NT user, quoted on Slashdot.

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug