Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - DNS-Based - LMAP]

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

Fridrik Skulason <frisk@f-prot.com> wrote:
> One point to consider: Anything that will eliminate impersonation spam will
> also have a drastic effect on computer worms.  It might be easier to push
> a solution that will not only help with one problem (spam) but another
> (worms) as well.  It will not eliminate either problem of course, but it
> will help with both.

  Exactly.

  Further, once the worms are forced to (ab)-use local MTA's to
propogate, their propogation rate will go down significantly.  The
experience we had locally before installing filtering software was
that 1-2 machines sending worms through the corporate MTA would
effectively DoS the MTA, and prevent further spread.

  LMAP can also be known as "making your local network screw-ups
affect you more than it affects me."

  Alan DeKok.

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