21 Jun
2001
21 Jun
'01
8:43 a.m.
because of the dislike of SPAM in general, and the cost to ISP's of SPAMmers on
their servers, these guys generally buy a discounted account, often free the
first month, send a couple or three hundred TB of SPAM, then disappear. What is
needed is a destination-local SPAM filter that verifies the path in the headers
is the one followed by the message. Beyond that, i.e. to get the guy's home
address so you can tar and feather him is much more challenging.
Unfortunately, until ISP's find a way to prevent their clients from spamming
without paying proportionally to the resulting global bandwidth consumption,
they'll just keep going and going and going .....
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Wave of the Future (Spam)
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
The problem with that is catching them.
All it takes is a handful, and the rest will get the message. These guys
are selling a product, they gotta be able to be contacted somehow.
The net effect is that they will be so driven underground to avoid capture
that the cost of doing business, and their ability to do business, will be
greatly diminished.
An interesting example of spam I got today has no domain name, just an IP
address (to avoid having to register). You go to their website, and there
is a form for you to fill out with your name, address, etc. These fools
can still be found. Just fill in the form, wait for them to contact you,
pretend to be a customer, gain their trust, get an address, arrest,
prosecute, fine, throw in jail, butt-rape, done.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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