Re: Dan Bernstein's issues about namedroppers list operation

[ned.freed@mrochek.com]

> >I believe the case of virus propogation is really something different. What
> >happens there is that someone gets infected and sends mail to every address
> >they have lying around, including the addresses of the lists they are on. In
> >such a case often as not the message come from their subscription address,
> >and therefore gets through.

> At least some variations of KLEZ, and probably more and more modern viruses,
> often forge the From: header using an email address that they find somewhere
> on the system.  I've seen quite a number of Windows viruses going out from
> fenner@research.att.com, but I do not have a Windows MUA configured with that
> address.  (The most recent one was sent to the IPNG list from a system
> attached to a dialup ISP in India.)

Sure, this also happens. But my point remains the same: Viruses are a different
problem from spam and seem to be responsible more often than not for garbage
getting through to lists.

Don't let the best be the enemy of the good.

				Ned