[wellylug] Spam problem highlighted by Ian

[Sam Cannell]

Noticed this yesterday:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/24/1442237&mode=thread

Not sure if it's related.  All the same, it's quite interesting.

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Hodgetts
Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2004 9:30 a.m.
To: WellyLUG
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Spam problem highlighted by Ian

Was watching TechTV last night, to see Mr. Gates stand up and say that
Hotmail will no longer be accecpting e-mail that has not come from an
authroised ISP who has some M$ product here to authencate it as being
from that IP address, and he hopes that all ISP's will comply and
rederara - insert some more crapola here....

Well thats fine by me, if anyone is stupid enought to have a Hotmail
account, then I dont have time to e-mail them..

What happend to the SMTP standard.... 

What standard is left for M$ to butcher.......

But on the side note, 

It will be intresting to see if they [m$] provide evey Exchange server a
licence - because lets face it, as a company, who wants to send all
their e-mail via an "approved Microsoft" ISP!



On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 22:43, Enkidu wrote:
> No worries. I get approx 800 - 1000 SPAMs per day via my personal 
> accounts and probably as many again through my generic mailboxes, eg 
> postmaster, abuse, info, etc. I have faith that some day the tide will

> turn and SPAM will be reduced to a trickle.....{{walks off mumbling 
> into his beard}}
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:57:55 +1300, you wrote:
> 
> >Ian I don't understand.  You appear to be saying you don't want to 
> >have your e-mail address included in others e-mails on our Wellylug 
> >mailing list.  But in this message below you are doing exactly 
> >that....  what's up?  Where am I not getting it?  Including someone's

> >full e-mail address in a message makes it liable to be spammed.  See
here:
> >http://lists.naos.co.nz/pipermail/wellylug/
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >Damon
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:12, Ian Beardslee wrote: 
> >> I think in Exchange you can set that all email is plain text.  Will

> >> check that tomorrow.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Enkidu <enkidu at xxxcliffpxx.com>
> >> To: wellylug at xxxxlistsxxxx.naos.co.nz
> >> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:50:04 +1300
> >> Subject: Re: [wellylug] RE: Dedicated linux firewalls boxes
--
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day Microsoft starts making vacuum cleaners. " -- Ernst Jan Plugge


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