I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on the antispam policies of
SprintPCS, so that you will know what to expect if you start getting blocked
by their mx.messaging.sprintpcs.com mail servers.
Background: One of our customers was infected by one of the viruses that spams
SprintPCS cell phones
When I signed up for SprintPCS I was offered a yourname @
sprintpcs.com mail account. They let me chose an alias for the
account. So now my cell phone has the email address of:
noc @ sprintpcs.com
This says something about how well they follow RFCs.
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Joe Hamelin
Edmonds, WA, US
I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on the antispam policies of
SprintPCS, so that you will know what to expect if you start getting blocked
by their mx.messaging.sprintpcs.com mail servers.
As a non-sprint-related side note, I know of somebody whose AT&T
Wireless phone service was rendered
On Jun 24, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
Has anyone ever encountered spammers doing a dictionary attack
(emailing all phone numbers in a NXX) via email-to-SMS gateways?
If they didn't before, they surely will now.
-davidu
David
Eric Kuhnke writes on 6/25/2004 5:44 AM:
As a non-sprint-related side note, I know of somebody whose AT&T
Wireless phone service was rendered completely unusable by incoming spam
via the email-to-SMS gateway. The typical rate was one message every 30
minutes, the only solution offered by custo