What are they smoking?

Tue Sep 16 01:17:15 UTC 2003

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:45:26 -0700
Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com> wrote:
> At 04:18 PM 9/15/2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> >Even worse of this is that you can't verify domain names under .net
> >any more for 'existence' as every .net domain suddenly has a A record
> >and then can be used for spamming...
> 
> so, every spammer in the world spams versign. The down side of this is ... 
> what? I don't remember... 

The problem is the (common) method of invalidating spam mails by
checking that the originating domain exists. If said domain is .net (and
soon .com), that check will no longer be useful.
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What *are* they smoking?

What are they smoking?