On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Simon Loewenthal wrote:
Paul Russell <pruss...@nd.edu> wrote:
The list was originally started by a group of email administrators in
higher education who
were attempting to deal with an epidemic of compromised accounts that
were being exploited
to send password phishing spam, mostly to addresses at other colleges
and universities. At
that point in time, it was easier to filter by sender address or
reply-to address than
content. Over time, the phishers seem to have expanded the target
demographic to include
everyone everywhere.
The list could be accessed by DNS and used as an rbl.
This concept was discussed/debated on this list about 2 years ago (~ Apr
2009; search for the subject of "emailBL").
There was some disagreement about how to handle the '@' within
the context of a DNS record and about privacy/security issues.
--
Dave Funk University of Iowa
<dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering
319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center
Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
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