> Since "zombie'd" hosts are essentially free, I'm not sure there is _any_ > way to make spam cost-prohibitive.
i guess i assumed that the major cost of spamming is bandwidth. but as someone else pointed out in this thread, there is also the anti-spam tactic of cutting offf based on volume, and a polluted namespace would seem to amplify the effectiveness of that tactic, which would feed into Stewart's perspective: "to make some of the other strategies worthwhile" Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
