Friday, April 12, 2002

Spammers don a friendly mask

Spammers don a friendly mask (excerpt)
Stefanie Olsen, ZDNet.com, April 12 2002

...Dan Birchall, executive director of advocacy group the SpamCon Foundation, suggests that recipients contact their Internet service provider to see if it is using proper filters to help stop the forgeries.

"You have to be a little bit skeptical," Birchall said.

(Addendum: I was referring to being skeptical of forgeries, not of service providers.)
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