Reference your supervisors questions and queries about spamming. You could
refer her to Mike Nice's posting "[IMail Forum] OT: Face to the spammer".
You could also point her to any number of references on the web. I think
though that the easiest explanation would be to compare how crooks forge
credit cards and then impersonate (spoof) the true card holders. It cost
the credit card industry millions and they've been trying to stop it for
years. Another alternative would be to spoof her email and send her a
message to herself from herself. let her observe you doing it so she can
see what it entails. Perhaps someone on the list could spoof a fictional
address (say heaven) and send her a message from say god.
Kevin Childers
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wise Choi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 3:27 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] bad list address
> ok. my question is...
> When I create a listserv, unfortunately when there is a bad email address
in the list, it kept sending out the same email message to everybody on the
list (around twenty times or so). This is very annoying. Is there anyway to
solve this problem???
>
> Well my supervisor gave me enough hard time...
> Today she was complaining and went off the subject and said people CRACK
into Imail and send spam using accounts like administrator...
> I explained that spammer spoof the header and sent out spam mails.
> She doesn't seem to UNDERSTAND how this works! she kept saying...
> if someone can get into us (log into our mail server page... and send out
spam from there...) this is very unsecure. She doesn't understand how the
spammer send out the SPAM. how do they send that out that many emails???
from my understanding, spammers are not actually logging into (cracking
passwords) our server. It is using mail programs like the one in Netscape
and IE that provides SMTP and don't check for username and password. am I
correct?
> then my supervisor went off and said how can we trust IMail... how can we
keep using this mail server... we should switch.....
> Does anyone know what alternative mail servers are out there?
> I'm sure switching server won't solve the open relay hole problem.
> But if anyone can help, much appreciate! thanks! ^_^'
>
> Wise Choi
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