Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

Edward B. Dreger eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net
Fri Feb 4 02:21:57 UTC 2005


JF> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:37:29 -0500
JF> From: Jason Frisvold

JF> Ouch ..  Then spammers may start using a From: matching the SMTP auth
JF> user, and effectively joe-jobbing the user..  Ick..

Exactly.  The user then loses mail sending ability, but other services
remain functional.


Eddy
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