[BC] note to the list

[Cowboy]

On Friday 08 June 2012 08:03:58 am David Kaye wrote:
> The problem is not services such as AOL or Yahoo, but users who use extremely simple passwords.

 Actually, no.

 This sort of problem stems not from cracked accounts, but
 from Windows virus that crack the address book, then send
 spam purporting to be from some address, but is not.
 ( and other places as well, but almost never from cracked accounts )

 Then there are spammers who will harvest and masquerade
 addresses found anywhere, from lists such as this one ( the
 list archives are viewable by anyone ) or many, many others,
 newsgroups, ( though most have gone by the wayside due
 to spam ) and simply making up From addresses that just
 happen to match a real one, as well as mail server commands
 that can "test" and extract addresses that way.

 How many of us have gotten spam that purports to be from
 ourselves ? Obviously, it isn't.

 All I'm saying is to not confuse the ingenuity of spammers
 with something else, that isn't a problem.
 That's how we end up with the extremely poor spam
 fighting techniques too many use these days.

-- 
Cowboy