Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Brandon Ross <bross () pobox com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> > On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:
> >
> > Please explain in detail where the fraud potential comes in.
>
> Spammer uses his botnet of zombie machines to send email from each of them to his own domain using the user's 
> legitimate email address as From:. Spammer says it was unsolicited and keeps the full $.10/email that victim users 
> have deposited into this escrow thing.
>
> Sounds a lot more profitable than regular spam.

You say this like having a tax on running a botted computer on the internet would be a bad thing.

I agree that it would provide a bit of profit to the spammers for a very short period of time, but I bet it would get a 
lot of bots fixed pretty quick.

Owen