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Re: botted hosts


From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:02:59 +0530


On Apr 5, 2005 5:56 PM, Tony Finch <dot () dotat at> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your
MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost.

Has that actually been observed in the wild?

We (Outblaze) have been seeing this for over a year now.  Carl Hutzler
at AOL has posted in various lists about having seen it for rather
longer than that.

I think it also hit the register after they interviewed someone at spamhaus

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)


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