🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:50:01 +0000 (UTC), Frank Buss
<fb@frank-buss.de> wrote:

>Colin Bloch <colin@NOSPAMgrandecom.com> wrote:
>
>> Sendmail is an MTA & whatever security issues its had in the past
>> have had nothing to do with the spread of worms.
>
>Not for the current worm. I received yesterday ca. 100 virus eMails, today 
>300, hoping the big providers will install sending filters, if the costs 
>are getting to high for them. But I don't want to think about what could be 
>possible, if a worm attacks sendmail and uses all the eMail addresses of 
>it.
>
>Any comments about this program: http://tmda.net ?
>
>I don't have time at the moment to install it on my server, but it looks 
>like a good solution to all spam and virus problems.

On the face of it, Challenge/Response sounds marvelous.  Then you
realize it will sink the Internet with the traffic density going up
astronomically.

I think blacklisting ala SpamCop/SPEWS will ultimately settle the
problem.

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