>I'm one of the administrators of nyx.net (a free type ISP in Denver). We
>don't we have this problem. Why may you ask? Simple. If you want an
>account with us, you have to send in a copy of your ID (Driver's license,
>etc..) in order to get a fully working account. We've never had a problem
>with spammers using us as a drop box simply because we make it a little
>harder to get an account. I think if more free email providers eneded
>open registration/immediate activations, we'd have considerably less of a
>net-wide spam problem.
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>Terry E. Knab
>News Administrator
>Nyx Public Access Unix
This brings up the question of certain programs such as Stealth Mailer.
These programs somehow (I'm not sure how because I don't want to give such
a company the $500 necessary to get a copy of the program to see how it
works) gives itself a mail server domain name that doesn't exist. It then
talks to another SMTP server, saying its passing along the mail, and then
the mail goes on its merry way with no way to track it back to its source
other than to the first server that accepted the mail for transfer. The
original machine name never existed except for the moment it took to
transfer the umpteen bajillion messages these spammers send out from the
lists they buy from the same company. The sites usually hit are juno.com,
aol.com, att.net, and uu.net for initial transfer. For some reason these
companies don't verify hostnames before accepting mail from them. Beware,
if you don't already do this, the spammers could source you as a transfer
site.
Kyle
kyle@mgsw3.jpl.nasa.gov
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