Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:38:57 +0000 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Postfix and Majordomo security (was FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE) Message-ID: <v04220802b6aeccfefa1a@[172.17.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <20010213090000.A2319@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <20010212180115.A42554@fling.sanbi.ac.za> <200102121704.f1CH4qU51986@mobile.wemm.org> <20010213090000.A2319@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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At 9:00 AM +0200 2001/2/13, Johann Visagie wrote: >> They cannot.. That would require them to send out individual copies of >> email, each personalized. That means they cannot use open smtp relays to >> send a single envelope to 10000+ recipients. > > Of course... very valid point! Sadly, I'm getting more and more personalized spam these days. Since a mailing list still offers a valid amplification method, this is still a very real attack that we need to keep in mind. We may not see a lot of it today, but I assure you that spammers will start using this mechanism more and more, as other avenues become less friendly to them. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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