Re: [exim] Why the dodgy HELOs?

On Thursday 06 October 2005 21:43, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Adam Funk wrote:
> > I still don't understand the spammers' motivation for this -- it
> > doesn't seem difficult to reject obviously dodgy HELOs.
>
> Quite a number of times, I've mused over the question of whether
> there's a kind of spammer who deliberately feeds an early clue, so
> that they don't waste too much effort on mail admins who are going to
> reject their spam somewhere in the course of the transaction anyway.

Interesting idea. I suppose even they recognise limitations on their
resources.