On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 01:00:07PM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: > >>> SMTP does not yield an efficient offline attack. >> >> Since when are spamming botnets interested in offline attacks to harvest >> email addresses? Botnets just sent to every random character combo @ >> domain. > > Since a time in the future when it becomes possible. :-) > > There'll probably be a service selling the harvested addresses to > spammers. Those existed 15 years ago, and still do. The proposal to make it slightly harder for a harvester (and that's all we're suggesting) adds complexity and no measurable value. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ dane mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dane
