[Fists] Status of Earthlink vs ARRL

[Frank Ayers]

Hi
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've seen, it seems like
somebody figured out that arrl.net is a relay where the first part of an
address is "W" or "K" followed by a single digit followed by two or three
letters. So, you just generate mail with the address of say "W" + "0" + "AA"
and go to "W" + "0" + "ZZZ". Then "W" + "1" and so on. How could you stop
that? Part of why I'm wondering is that you could also do the same thing
with other addresses. For example, if the General Electric employee
addresses were the first five letters of your last name at GE.com what could
be done to stop people from concatenating five letters with "@ge.com" and
spamming them? Granted, maybe there is no lzudf@ge.com but a spammer
wouldn't care.

Frank
W2FCA
FISTS# 9109


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Block" <w2sr@trackdata.com>
>
> It's a very nasty world out there and ARRL needs to consider how their
> actions facilitate the work of spammers.  The Burke quotation about good
> people doing nothing seems applicable here.