Evan Platt said: > I don't have a link for you, but tell your boss to imagine if someone > decided to dictionary attack every ISP they could find, using not only > dictionary words, but every combination of letters up to 9 letters, i.e. > aaaaaaaaa, aaaaaaaab, aaaaaaaac, etc up to zzzzzzzzz for every ISP they > can find. And tell your boss that they intend to use HIS address as the > reply-to address for the spam. Now ask him if he still thinks it's a good > idea for ISP's to 'bounce' spam to this unintended victim - him.
Let me follow up to myself (please allow myself to introduce... myself.) I posted a message to a yahoo group last week. A few minutes later, I get a e-mail that my message has been marked as Spam by some software, and if I wish to confirm my identity, I must click on a link to that companies web site (tracking numbers and all that in the URL). And, of course, this will add me to the persons allowed list so I won't have to do it again. Needless to say, I will NOT do that. This company could then sell its lists of CONFIRMED addresses for a goldmine. I then posted to the list, asked if anyone else had received this message, and a number of people did, and for the most part, no one clicked on the link. So now there's some 1d10t wondering why he's not getting any mail. I know this isn't your boss'es intention, but it sounds like he wants anything marked as spam deleted? Not a good idea, IMHO. (Baby, bathwater). Evan
