Umm... I hate to take away your taking away of the last example [LWN.net]

Umm... I hate to take away your taking away of the last example

Posted Sep 7, 2004 1:10 UTC (Tue) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Umm... I hate to take away your taking away of the last example by gwolf
Parent article: Debian rejects Sender ID

I basically agree with your first paragraph. SMTP authentication doesn't
prevent receipt of spam, but it does prevent anonymous sending of spam.

You lose me in your second paragraph. Spammer's don't need to run SMTP
an server to send spam. As you say, an SMTP client can pump out messages as
quickly as it's network connection will allow. If you meant that people
accidently setup open SMTP relays which allow spammers to hijack their
servers then I agree, but it's an obvious problem with an obvious solution.

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