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100 Email Bouncebacks - Welcome to Backscattering
distefano links to a story on Computerworld, excerpting: "E-mail users are receiving an increasing number of bounceback spam, known as backscatter, and security experts say this kind of spam is growing. The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: 'Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar,' 'UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you.' You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer? Nope, you're just getting a little backscatter — bounceback messages from legitimate e-mail servers that have been fooled by the spammers."
Airport Announcer: "Mike Hunt? White Courtesy Telephone, please. Mike Hunt..."
Parents had a sense of humor?
MY JEWELER COULD NOT TELL
IT WAS NOT A REAL ROLEX!
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"go and get extensions to your obviously miniscule penises "
I think one of their products can help them with that.
Think Machiavelli.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I've figured out how to stop all spam, and it's very simple: I block all incoming email.
I know what you're thinking... what about the false positives? Yes, there are some, but here's the great part of the system... the more spam I receive, the lower my false positive rate. I don't need to worry about backscatter, phishing, viruses, or anything, and the CPU usage for this is incredibly minimal.
Much easier to write a list of mail servers which are configured properly. At 66 lines per page, I'd reckon on about 5 sheets.
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
Computer World trying to get street cred by re-hashing old and moldy.
Nothing new here, move along.
Rick B.
You know what else? You could make vehicles a lot faster if, instead of putting them on logs, you put four little round disks at the corners! I know, let's call them wheels!