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On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 10:45, Simon Waters wrote:
SMTP Auth moves the restriction on email from trusted IP, to someone who happens to know/guess/steal the password for a mail account.
Such as the kind of widespread screw-up Hotmail used to be prone to? ;)
I don't have a problem with the further deployment of SMTP Auth, it needs to be done well, and I don't think most implementations are there yet.
When I first became active on the Internet (I won't count a brief time with Compuserve!) I had Demon Internet, and initially SMTP was used for both incoming AND outgoing email. IIRC back then authentication was required both ways, so even in 1996 SMTP Auth was a viable proposition for a large/medium sized ISP. Then they moved to POP3 and SMTP and dropped authentication on SMTP down to the standard IP restriction.
Almost all spam is sent using compromised PC's, which almost certainly violates criminal statutes in all countries the spammer are likely to live. In this country unauthorised access to computers carries a very hefty maximum sentence.
Sadly not. In the *Western* world granted you are correct. However from my experience of AUP Support, a large volume originates from the Far East; Korea, Taiwan, China being the main culprits. Given that it is widely accepted (I'll not blindly say 'known') that the Chinese allow people to take video cameras into cinemas in order to copy movies (provided they are American movies) it would not surprise me in the slightest if spamming the West, far from being illegal, was tacitly encouraged in certain quarters. Having said that I am reminded of the large volumes we were starting to get from Mexico (it doesn't help when the TLD has the same letters as a Mail Exchanger does it? ;)). Also South America, Brazil being another culprit growing in popularity. Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.