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Dictionary Spammer Fined $55,000 for Spam Attack
Lawrence_Bird writes "In a first, a Japanese district court has ordered
a spammer to pay restitution to NTT DoCoMo for abuse of their imode system. 'The damage caused by large amounts of e-mail not reaching their destinations should be covered by the sender,' said the judge. The fine is about $55,000 and was based on an estimated cost to NTT of 1.2 yen per undelivered spam ($0.01) for the 4 million spams that were undeliverable. What is most startling is NTT DoCoMo assertion that of the 950 million emails
they receive each day, 880 million are not deliverable!"
I think that it should be clearer that those 880 million are sent to *non-existant* addresses. The slashdot article makes it looks like that their infrastructure can't cope...
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...as someone who recently had an email server relay raped
Hmmm. Not to come across too harsh or anything, but you _really_ should test these things. Rather than just assuming that it wasnt "accesible to the open", you should telnet to your mail server and test the possible relay methods, or at the very least, register with abuse.net and let their online tester do the work for you.
As you have no doubt seen, getting a server off ORBS and the like is really a LOT more hassle than testing in the first place. Additionally; as you say "[i]t's about time people realise that stuff like this has very real consequences..." This works both ways. If you don't secure your systems, they _will_ be taken advantage of, and next time it will be Company X suing you for permitting your mail server to be used in spamming them and not just Company X suing the spammer.
"I'm tired of all this 'Aren't humanity great' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes" - Bill Hicks
Postfix does that out of the box.