At 7:46 PM + 12/30/03, Richard Clayton wrote:
where does our esteemed moderator get _his_ stamps
from ?
A whitelist for my friends, etc...
Whitelist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheers,
RAH
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At 07:46 PM 12/30/2003 +, Richard Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[what about mailing lists]
Obviously you'd have to whitelist anybody's list you're joining
if you don't want your spam filters to robo-discard it.
moan
I never understand why people think spam is a technical problem :( let
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 07:46 PM 12/30/2003 +, Richard Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[what about mailing lists]
Obviously you'd have to whitelist anybody's list you're joining
if you don't want your spam filters to robo-discard it.
moan
I never understand why
Richard Clayton wrote:
and in these schemes, where does our esteemed moderator get _his_ stamps
from ? remember that not all bulk email is spam by any means... or do
we end up with whitelists all over the place and the focus of attacks
moves to the ingress to the mailing lists :(
He uses the
Scott Nelson wrote:
d*b
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s
where: d = stamp delay in seconds
s = spam size in bytes
b = bandwidth in bytes per second
I don't understand this equation at all.
It's the rate limiting factor that counts, not a combination of
stamp speed + bandwidth.
well, stamp speed is method of
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
But using your spam size, , the slowdown factor becomes roughly
73 times. So they would need 73 machines running full tilt all the time
to regain their old throughput.
Believe me, the professionals have enough 0wned machines that this is
(The use of memory speed leads to an interesting notion: Functions that are
designed to be differentially expensive on different kinds of fielded hardware.
On a theoretical basis, of course, all hardware is interchangeable; but in
practice, something differentially expensive to calculate on an
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
But using your spam size, , the slowdown factor becomes roughly
73 times. So they would need 73 machines running full tilt all the time
to regain their old throughput.
Believe me, the professionals have enough 0wned machines that this is
