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Re: Unplugging spamming PCs


From: Joe Hamelin <nethead () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:26:00 -0700


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:40:23 -0700, Larry Pingree <lpingree () juniper net> wrote:

I agree with you it's a hard problem to solve. But unless there is
mandatory cooperation within mail server software (which can be
monitored) to interface with a registry of acceptable/registered sites,
then this model could work. 

I can telnet to a mailserver and send mail to that host without much
thought.  What good will a registry do?  What will solve spam is
getting some of these virus writers to actually write some code that
will trash disks of poorly patched (if a at all) hosts.  Let Darwin
take over.

-Joe


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