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Re: Lazy network operators - NOT
From: John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:24:32 -0400
At 9:42 PM -0500 4/17/04, Doug White wrote:
Spamming is pervasive mainly due to the inattention or failure to enforce acceptable use policies by the service provider.
It's pervasive because its profitable. It's been profitable because even a few weeks of a high-speed circuit can generate millions of messages which don't need much of a response rate to generate revenue. The problem now is that a growing percentage of spam is originating from distributed farms of broadband connected users (Commtouch says 80% in one article, but I'm not yet convinced its that high - <http://www.clickz.com/stats/big_picture/applications/article.php/3337751>) This would suggest that spam is pervasive largely because of the large number of insecure systems available for origination (via port 25 :-), not because of providers failing to close barn doors after the fact... /John
Current thread:
- Re: Lazy network operators, (continued)
- Re: Lazy network operators John Curran (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Michael . Dillon (Apr 14)
- Re: Lazy network operators Chris Palmer (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators John Curran (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Paul Vixie (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Paul Vixie (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Petri Helenius (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Crist Clark (Apr 14)
- Re: Lazy network operators Rob Nelson (Apr 17)
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- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Doug White (Apr 17)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT John Curran (Apr 17)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Paul Vixie (Apr 17)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Sean Donelan (Apr 17)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Alex Bligh (Apr 18)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Sean Donelan (Apr 18)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Paul Vixie (Apr 18)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Petri Helenius (Apr 18)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Paul Vixie (Apr 19)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 19)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Paul Vixie (Apr 18)
- Re: Lazy network operators - NOT Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 18)