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

Wed Jun 1 16:53:21 UTC 2005

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.

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TTFN,
patrick