[ On Thu, January 8, 1998 at 08:44:49 (+0000), Dom Mitchell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] Received-Format not compliant to RFC 822?
>
> On 7 January 1998, Greg A. Woods proclaimed:
> > (Unfortunately even the address cannot be trusted now that spammers have
> > learned to hijack BGP.)
>
> This sounds nasty; could you enlighten us a little more?
According to a recent message sent to the NANOG list by Paul Vixie there
are spammers who are now injecting routes for un-allocated address space
and then quickly spewing out a bunch of spam and immeadiately
withdrawing the routes. In theory their upstream feed's BGP filters
should prevent this but it seems some ISPs have let their routing grow
out of control into an unmanageable mess and are thus unable to
implement correct filters.
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