Herry Budiutama writes:
> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Smart ones use real domains, albeit they don't belong to it. You have to
> do a bit of research to find out whether they actually have a legitimate
> account there, which I'm sure most of us aren't willing to do (i.e.
> wasting our time for spammers).
I think legislation is the wrong way to combat it. If you use ubiquitous
authentication at mail delivery level, and introduce minimal delays to
inhibit hit-and-run strategies, both filtering and retaliation should
be sufficient to keep spam under control.
> > - many of the spammers are secondary (housewifes), and sometimes the
> > spammer have their own domains. These get their ping of death,
>
> I doubt that one would waste their resources pinging a spammer's domain.
A ping of death is a malformed packet [sequence], which crashes the
machine. The secondary spammer (the housewife with modem,
redistributing spam for a fee) is unlikely to have the latest Win95
security patch. Works like a charm over PPP.
ciao,
'gene
