On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:16:17PM -0500, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> What would you suggest a vendor do against a spammer?
>
> Sue?
> Bribe?
> Assault?
<chuckle>
"What we need are a couple of good hangings."
--- FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle, 2003
The real answer to your question is much longer. If you're so interested
in these things, why aren't you on spam-l, which is pretty much where
anybody with expert-level skills in this subject area hangs out? I feel
like I'm giving you a paragraph-by-paragraph tutorial on anti-spam theory
and practice 101 here. Maybe I should be charging for this. ;-)
But there are quite a few things $VENDOR can do, none of which require
any illegal or unethical or even expensive or complicated actions.
However...since these same actions might endanger the revenue stream,
they're very seldom undertaken. $VENDOR is not here to stop spammers:
$VENDOR is here to line their pockets by taking advantage of the Internet's
collective misery.
And some $VENDORS are pretty blatant about it: heck, I've even got a small
blacklist of supposedly-anti-spam vendors that have spammed to promote
their anti-spam products and services. How incredibly sleazy is that?
Now...youse wouldn't want anything bad maybe to happen to ya mail
servers, wouldja?
Or, Brit version:
Luigi: How many men you got here, Colonel?
Colonel: Oh, errr...seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery,
and errr, two divisions of paratroops.
Luigi: Paratroops, Dino.
Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.
Colonel: Set fire to them?
Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel.
Dino: Things burn.
---Rsk
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