Text 1739, 63 rader
Skriven 2005-01-07 13:11:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MARK LEWIS
Ärende: Spam
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ML>ML>> JE> the major ISPs will shut you off if you send too
ML>ML>> JE> much bulk mail. I know my ISP Sbcglobal.net will.

ML>ML>>that's if you send it via their servers... this is why
ML>ML>>so many of those worms have their own SMTP engines...
ML>ML>>they send directly to the destination server instead
ML>ML>>of via your ISP's server...

ML> JE> Forgive me, I did say I knew very little about this,

ML>no problem... my apologies if i came across a tad harsh...

ML> JE> but isn't MY ISP the destination server?

ML>if you are on the receiving end, yes... are you saying that they will "shut
me
ML>off" if i send you too much bulkmail? seems to me the only real ones they
can
ML>"shut off" are their own customers abusing their servers...

That is what I meant. When I see an incoming message with alphabet soup
as the sender's name I automatically mark it as spam and it gets deleted
and put on my blacklist rather than being downloaded to my PC. However,
the spammers are constantly changing their "alphabet soup" names. That
is when key word IDing In the subject, body, of the message helps



all they can do to
ML>me is to block my access to their servers based on IP or domain name...

ML>as a spammer, i'd use many IPs and domain names... in fact, i'd have me an
army
ML>of thousands and thousands of machines all over the world... there's no way
ML>they could block me with all those at my disposal... the list of blocked
ML>addresses and domains would soon swamp them and the load incurred checking
ML>would be greater than the load of simply processing the mail... sooner or
ML>later, they'd end up cutting off the entire world...

From what you are saying, if all of many spammers did the same we are in
deep doo doo.

Jay

ML>then, to make more money, i'd sell access to my army to other spammers so
that
ML>i get paid for sending the spam and others would pay me to be able to send
ML>their spam... my army could even "expand" to include open proxy capabilities
ML>along with the ability for it to be a zombie army that could be used to DDOS
ML>(distributed denial of service) any site or domain...

ML>i think i'll leave off there, for now... hopefully the picture is a bit
clearer
ML>now? ;)

ML>)\/(ark

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