Yes, mostly

Yes, mostly

Posted Dec 19, 2003 0:30 UTC (Fri) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: What about cracked machines? by NAR
Parent article: Spam-proofing the mail system

The cracked machines would in all likelyhood not be allowed to send email
for the domain they are in (probably an ISP's domain). Normal use would
require sending the messages through the ISP's outgoing mail server where
the user could be authenticated.

But spammers are determined people. They could develop better hijacking
tools for use on the cracked machines. Such tools might wait for the user
to authenticate against the ISP's mailserver and then inject a ton of spam.
Hopefully ISPs would rate limit outgoing mail on a per-user, or at least
per-connection basis.

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