Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org>]

On 02/03/05, "Miller, Mark" <mark.miller () qwest com> wrote: 

>   How come it is always about controlling the symptoms and not the
> illness?  The vast majority of these
> "spam drones" are compromised WINDOWS machines.  If the operating system
> and dominant email applications so easily allows the users' machines to
> be taken over by a third party, then there is something wrong with the
> operating system and the mail applications.  It occurs to me that the
> solution is not to limit the range of destruction, but to defuse the
> bomb.  Perhaps the focus for a solution should move up the model to
> layer 7.

        Upgrading and/or replacing the OS for every Windows user on the
        planet is an educational issue.  Keeping the network viable
        while you figure out how to do that is an operational issue.

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J.D. Falk                                          uncertainty is only a virtue
<jdfalk () cybernothing org>                    when you don't know the answer yet