On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:03:59 -0400 (EDT), Dean Anderson wrote:
Spam can be detected, and stopped after detection, but it cannot
be made impossible to send.
The question is really whether SMTP has sufficient identification
information to track down an abuser, or infected user. The answer to this
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:54:34 +0200
Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, draft-fecyk-dsprotocol-04.txt is in the RFC editor queue
that's odd. the document claims to be a candidate for proposed standard, but
the I-D tracker says not assigned yet under shepherding AD. and I
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 05:25:19PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
The Virus writer obviously went to some trouble to pick valid addresses.
It stands to reason that they expect that someone is getting mail to these
addresses. It also stands to reason that the abuser expects those persons
to get
Valdis;
MIME is too much e-mail centric.
For an E-mail centric protocol, it's worked pretty well on port 80
MIME worked on port 80 only as well as pre-MIME 822.
MIME worked pretty badly with the rest of the OS.
All that was necessary is to document file name extensions such as
tar, uu
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Dean Anderson wrote:
Open source kernels aren't immune. They just aren't at focus this time.
If a worm is executing visual basic code, then i think i am pretty darn
immune.
Have fun with the sandwich. ;-)
It was wonderful.
--Dean
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003,