Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/01/03

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    Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:18:23 -0700
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    > From cjwatson@debian.org Fri Aug 1 11:15:16 2003
    >
    >
    > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
    > > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name.
    > >
    > > Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was running
    > > a C-R system.
    >
    > A fair proportion of my spam comes from debian.org addresses; spammers
    > are becoming more adept at forging sender addresses, frequently by
    > pulling addresses from e.g. web pages and using one address as the
    > source and the others as the target, so the recipients are likely to
    > know the alleged sender.
    >
    > I predict that challenge-response systems will become increasingly less
    > useful as time goes on due to this trend.
    >

    Once again you demonstrate your ignorance of, or prejudice against C-R systems

    Please QUIT mis-informing people.

    Mail from debian.org to me must COME from debian.org...

    Don't tell me you have never heard of Received: headers? (etc.)

    > --
    > Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
    >
    >
    >

    Alan 

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