15 Sep
2003
15 Sep
'03
9:17 p.m.
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 17:45:26 -0700 Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> wrote:
At 04:18 PM 9/15/2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:
Even worse of this is that you can't verify domain names under .net any more for 'existence' as every .net domain suddenly has a A record and then can be used for spamming...
so, every spammer in the world spams versign. The down side of this is ... what? I don't remember...
The problem is the (common) method of invalidating spam mails by checking that the originating domain exists. If said domain is .net (and soon .com), that check will no longer be useful.