Re: [Asrg] Anti-spam laws do work, FYI. There's proof.

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

[another sent to me directly so I'll remove attributions]

 > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:20:04PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
 > > Why would it be easier than just looking at the IP address of the
 > > sending host, which would be the infected zombie, which is right now
 > > stamped at the top of every single piece of e-mail you receive?
 > 
 > OK, "Easier for the "Average Joe" out there ;-)

Since you claim that the SPF result would be easier for the average
joe to understand might you give us an example of what, exactly, the
average joe would see in this new scenario that's so easy to
understand?

Nah, no one knows, it was just another knee-jerk response!

Howsabout: SPF et al will make the country, and the world, safer from
terrorism. Do it for the children!

 Getting rid of forgeries
 > will also get rid of most of the "you sent me virus/spam" mails.

Yeah it might get rid of some of those, back to the joe job scenario.

 > > Yeah it would probably help with that somewhat, "joe jobs", no
 > > argument, but that's not spam per se.
 > 
 > The net effect is the same - lots of unwanted crap in your mailbox.
 > Getting bombarded with 17000+ mails like that in one day is not fun.

But what about spam?

 > There is nother positive side effect too.  SPF would essentially kill off
 > the current generation of worms that forge the sender's address.

Why? I thought those ran on the sender's infected machine. Can't the
sender's infected machine send mail "from" the owner of that infected
machine?

 > It is sort-of an unintentional side-effect, as SPF is not meant to be
 > an anti-virus technique, but hey....it is a nice side-effect.

Except that it doesn't work.

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        -Barry Shein

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