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Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 10:21:10 -0400
On Wed, 05 May 2004 12:55:04 PDT, Steve Gibbard said:
Presumably, if it's being sent that means somebody wanted to send it, so the senders' desires are a pretty meaningless metric.
Actually, there's two cases: 1) the sender intended to send it, so the sender's desires don't matter as we "know" a priori what the answer was... 2) The sender has malware on the box - I am including in here everything from viruses, worms, and trojans to the popular software that tries to register an RFC1918 address in the DNS (resulting in traffic to the root DNS servers). Here, the sender's desires don't matter, since they aren't aware they're even doing it until somebody *tells* them....
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- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 06)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Valdis . Kletnieks (May 06)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? David Barak (May 05)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? David Schwartz (May 05)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Steve Gibbard (May 05)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? David Schwartz (May 05)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Valdis . Kletnieks (May 06)
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