Re: [nznog] Mailwasher and its Forged Bounces

Sadly, as Steve has said, the Mailwasher authors have precisely zero interest in being good members of the 'net community. This has been raised with them before, I believe NZNOG was informed at the time, too. I'm aware of ISPs who've politely told customers using the bounce feature that if they don't desist immediately (for very, very small values of "right the f**k now!") their account will be terminated for T&C violations. Most customers then listen. And one plonker who boasted about using the bounce feature,on Usenet, was reported to to TCL abuse by at least three people and promptly vanished. If ISPs take a hard line with customers who use the bounce feature, maybe even explicitly forbid it in their T&C, it might add a little weight to requests to the Mailwasher authors to remove the feature. Failing that, a lawyergram advising of a potential criminal complaint tends to buck peoples' ideasup.

That'd be nice :P

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Blair Robson wrote:

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I agree with you Marky Mark, I'm sure the mailwasher team wouldn't mind putting something in about it.

Blair Robson

Wireless Data Technical Specialist Telecom New Zealand Ltd

wdhd(a)telecom.co.nz

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Foster" To: "Lennon - Orcon" Cc: Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] Mailwasher and its Forged Bounces

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I know ISPs dont like referencing third party hosted data, but if there's demand i'd gladly write up something and put it on my site. Assuming noone has beaten me to it.

At the risk of replying to myself - and for the benefit of those readers who don't understand why this is a 'bad thing'(tm) - I ranted about it anyway.

Those interested can view it at http://www.blakjak.net/node/view/134

As always, opinions posted are mine only.

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