Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:45:40PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: >> >> And secondly, with this little epiphany comes a realization of >> just how easy it is to spam and where it all comes from... I >> could easily bombard whomever I wanted with email from my Linux >> box sitting right here without the need for a valid "mail >> account" on a "mail" server or anything of the like. That's >> right, isn't it? > > well, yes and no. Yes, you certainly could do that. The reality though > is that most major ISP's will not accept mail from those sets of IP > addresses flagged as part of another ISP's dhcp pool. For example, my > home server sits in Comcast's (IknowIknow) dhcp pool (dynamically > assigned ip addreses). Granted my IP never changes, but its in that > group and many other ISP's on the net will *not* accept mail from me > directly. i have to route it through one my providers hosts.
Not that I condone such tactics. Good host-based antispam rejections are based on actual spam hosted from specific IPs, not mass blacklists of vast blocks. Somewhat more labor intensive to maintain at least initially, but worth it. > If I were to get proper fixed IP with a registered domain name and MX > addresses etc, then yup. i could spam to my hearts content -- and burn > in hell later (if you're into that sort of thing). If you're spamming, why waste money on getting a domain when you can forge headers and point folks to a zombie IP running the webserver? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
