From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7ee0d960296483 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-22 20:49:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:49:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:49:06 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current "Swen" worm attack References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.77 X-Trace: sv3-ilkDfH5sxg/GZave5xyzzbEUJq+kmpCUz6YaV4VMcN/QDOeRMFkWVZYl5xrK0SUoLF6Ce8lmUUtxUZK!m+XskoxFtcC6BKYzpcMJUfY9fndTJhRrXnwipu7ao6j2Lz3KMdczNO4G1KUznQpjuVyoeocZYxWy X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42768 Date: 2003-09-22T22:49:06-05:00 List-Id: chris wrote: > copies. Reports say spam will be helped by the verisign fiasco, though > I'm not sure why. I wonder if it will help worms like this spread? There are folks who reject mail connections with bogus domain names. thanks to Verisign, ALL strings that end in .com reverse DNS to an IP address, a lot fewer spams will be rejected by sites that use that filtering method. By the way, Verisign is STILL doing that! -- Wes Groleau Heroes, Heritage, and History http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/