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Matthew Maddock
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> Sure, we call all send millions of mails as POTUS, just as we could as
> Matthew Maddock, however anyone looking at the headers would be able to
> trace them back to your ISP, who should be able to tie them down to the
> customer in question.
That doesn't stop you getting all the bounced and angry e-mails tho!
Mail clients (and users!) are not that clever. The only way to resolve
this is to form an entirely new way of sending e-mail, and as someone
has already pointed out - that is just not going to happen - at least
not in the foreseeable future anyway.
> A while back I heard that a
> new machine going on line could be compromised in as little as 20 minutes.
That sounds about right - I once opened up our mail server (when I was
in IT) for a customer who wanted to send a few e-mails through
our server - very soon after I found our mail server running slowly
and discovered it delivering thousands of messages. It wasn't more than
a couple of hours after I had opened it up (as a temporary measure I may
add!) and this must have been at least 6 years ago now, so I can only
imagine that spammers find open mail servers even quicker now. Anyone
who has sat and watched a firewall blocking attempts to gain entry to
a machine connected directly to the Internet will know just how many
attempts there are to probe that machine to find its weaknesses.
Matt
> Matthew Maddock, however anyone looking at the headers would be able to
> trace them back to your ISP, who should be able to tie them down to the
> customer in question.
That doesn't stop you getting all the bounced and angry e-mails tho!
Mail clients (and users!) are not that clever. The only way to resolve
this is to form an entirely new way of sending e-mail, and as someone
has already pointed out - that is just not going to happen - at least
not in the foreseeable future anyway.
> A while back I heard that a
> new machine going on line could be compromised in as little as 20 minutes.
That sounds about right - I once opened up our mail server (when I was
in IT) for a customer who wanted to send a few e-mails through
our server - very soon after I found our mail server running slowly
and discovered it delivering thousands of messages. It wasn't more than
a couple of hours after I had opened it up (as a temporary measure I may
add!) and this must have been at least 6 years ago now, so I can only
imagine that spammers find open mail servers even quicker now. Anyone
who has sat and watched a firewall blocking attempts to gain entry to
a machine connected directly to the Internet will know just how many
attempts there are to probe that machine to find its weaknesses.
Matt
