Re: Spam (or, how to buy Cheap Korean Cellphones :-)

[Rod Gilchrist <rod () borderware com>]

Sorry about the smpt's. Weird to be consistent about a typo like that.

Anyway, not a huge problem there. That's what smtp authentication
is for. Send your mail via the other domain's smtp proxy (from the 
outside)
and have them sign it. In order to do so you need a valid user ID and 
password.

If they don't have a policy that involves them knowing who is sending
mail through their smtp gateway and ensuring that none of the
authorized users behave like spammers, their reputation gets mucked up.

- Rod


On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 05:35  PM, Joseph S D Yao wrote:

> I assume that all smpt's were meant to be smtp's?  ;-)  including 
> smpti?
>
> One basic problem with this domain key concept ... what if I have a
> perfectly good joe () verizon com e-mail address, and I'd like to sign my
> message that way and have people respond to it ... but I happen to be
> logged into the @tux.org domain right now?  Currently, this is
> certainly legitimate, but there appears to be no way to get my mail
> signed in the scheme that you describe.  Verizon won't let me poke mail
> into its server from outside [at least, they shouldn't!], and I don't
> have their private keys with which to sign my mail.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Joe Yao                         jsdy () center osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
> OSIS Center Systems Support                                     EMT-B
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