At 4:37 PM -0800 12/9/00, Michael C. Berch wrote:
>A friend who
>operates the small ISP I'm a customer of has done some informal
>monitoring and he concurs, and notes that most spam he sees (in the
>U.S.) originates from, or passes through, systems outside the U.S.
Agreed. And what I see is more spam that's well-formed, in that it's
hard to tell that it's spam other than looking at the content and
saying "I say this is spam". it used to be easier to programmatically
nuke the low hanging fruit, but that's not true any more. (gads. the
concept of "high quality spam" is silly, but...)
I am seeing a lot of foreign language spam, also -- but part of that
could be happenstance. I see LOTS of spanish language spam, but it so
happens that my name/domain (chuqui.com) matches up nicely with the
name of the largest open pit copper mine, which happens to be in
Chile. so I think I see stuff that is being targetted at them...
>ISPs in
>countries such as Korea, Indonesia, and India, and the hijacking of
>legitimate commercial and academic systems in countries with less
>network security sophistication than the US, Canada, EU, and Japan.
yah. i've been tempted at times, in all honesty, to simply assume
that ANYTHING that is delivered to me that was touched by a copy of
an older version of sedndmail is spam, because of the systems that
haven't been upgraded. Until something is done to deal with that, the
problem is not remotely soluable, but that would require some kind of
protocol change to SMTP+, with a lockout of sites that didn't
upgrade. I see that chance about as high as the usenet II stuff
suddenly succeeding to replace Usenet....
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