Re: [Asrg] Is this a new spam form?

["Alan DeKok" <aland@freeradius.org>]

Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:
> she got spam addressed from a user of her mail list. That user seems to 
> have gotten "something" that caused her machine to send a spam message 
> to everyone in her address book.

  Which indicates a useful definition for spam:

  "spam is email which the user of the MUA did not intend to send"

> I hadn't thought about it before now, but this seems like a great way 
> to propogate a spam message, because it works through whitelists and 
> around subscription blocks on lists nicely, and doesn't require open 
> relays or open proxies.

  I agree.  There are many, many machines out there which are
"owned".  Many are being used to send spam *without* a MUA.

  Alan DeKok.
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