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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote: > > RFC2827/BCP38? > not exactly... though most likely 2827 would have helped. Our abuse folks called it 'fantasy mail' ... Spammer signs up for 'fast' link with someone, uses a farm of juno dial (or netzero or... you get the point) accounts to make a large number of machines dial out and start sending email as the dial-up IP out the 'fast' link. This was painful for a while, radius applied filters fix it now. > - ferg > > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > > [snip] > > What they're *trying* to do is actually quite sensible, and beats > spammers trying to do asymmetric routing / source address spoofing > type stuff > > [snip] > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > [email protected] or [email protected] > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ >
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