Re: Verizon is easily fooled by spamming zombies (was: Re: VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists)

From: Patrick W. Gilmore (no email)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 12:53:21 EDT

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    On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Steven Champeon wrote:

    > IOW, VZ isn't even checking to see if a zombie'd host is forging its
    > own domain into HELO, regardless of whether it comes from Comcast or
    > UUNet, and as long as the forged sender has a verizon.net address, and
    > the recipient hasn't blocked VZ's silly callback system, the message
    > is relayed. Thanks, Verizon. We can hear you now.

    The other half of this is if you are on VZ's network and try to send
    mail through their system, you cannot unless you have a "verizon.net"
    from address. Or at least that was the case when my friend with VZ
    DSL tried to send e-mail through VZ from her personal domain.

    -- 
    TTFN,
    patrick
    

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