[Gllug] Virus on Linux/Mac

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Alain Williams wrote:
> It is important to understand the 'protection' that this would offer:
> 'owned' PCs for part of spam bot networks, directly sending out email.

And what would stop the bots getting smart enough to look up their
hostname, find an MX for it and try to use that as their outbound relay?
(On most ISPs, this would work)

> How would this 'break' the Internet ? An ISP customer would need
> to register to say that they send mail directly; everyone else
> (the vast majority) would do nothing and notice nothing.

It would mean every time I go to a friend's house I have to reconfigure
my mail settings, which would be pretty lame. To pick one trivial example.

Whatever situation you pick to examine this, the failure mode is going
to be that someone can't connect to their mail server. They won't get a
helpful error as to why or what they need to do, it just won't work.

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
  cmsj at tenshu.net
   www.tenshu.net
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