[Gllug] Spammers
Richard Jones
rich at annexia.org
Wed Sep 24 13:12:01 UTC 2003
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.
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