RE: [Nolug] *Incredible* surge in spam

Right now, no. There are some interesting protocols being considered that
would prevent a lot of mail forgery/spam. The one i like is Reverse MX
(RMX). Whereby along with setting up forward MX records for your domain,
you setup reverse records saying which mail servers are allowed to send
mail on your domains behalf. So when your mail server gets a message from
yahoo.com, it'll check DNS to see if the originating IP is an RMX for
yahoo.com. If not, it gets bounced as spam. This would totally eradicate
all spam/virii that propagate through dial-up accounts.

One bad thing is in order for RMX to be effective, every mail server has
to use it. But if yahoo, aol, and hotmail did it, that would eliminate a
lot of spam. Other bad thing is you're now forced to use your ISP's mail
server. But some ISP's are doing that already.

ray

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Chris Reames wrote:

> Is there a way to track unknown addresses and do a reverse check to see if
> its a valid address?
> If so, can this be checked before a message is delivered?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:18 AM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] *Incredible* surge in spam
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 04:28, Joey Kelly wrote:
> > Thou spake:
> > <snip>
> > >
> > >My only 2 addresses are @yahoo.com & @cox.net. The @yahoo.com
> > >address has always seemed to get ~50% spams.
> >
> > Why don't you email the spammers from your yahoo account to complain about
> > the increase in spam on your cox account. Maybe things'll even out a bit.
>
> They're all bogus addresses.
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> Jefferson, LA USA
>
> Great Inventors of our time:
> Al Gore -> Internet
> Sun Microsystems -> Clusters

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