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DMCA vs. Spam?
from the would-that-work dept
The argument isn't all that well laid out in this article, but the writer is saying that we should look at spam as an intellectual property issue, and see if we can use things like the DMCA against spam - by saying that our email addresses are intellectual property. It's an interesting idea, but (1) I doubt it will work and (2) it raises a whole bunch of other problems. The article also describes another spam technique that goes one step beyond the spoofed "reply-to" line spams. What they do is figure out which email addresses are going to bounce - and then send the spam specifically to that email address, but spoof your address as the "from" line. This way, when sendmail bounces the messages as undeliverable... you get the spam as a bounce message. And, instead of having to worry about finding an open relay to send the spam, they're using someone's completely legitimate set up of sendmail to send the spam. Ouch.
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Using Bounce messages to spam
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the bounce technique
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