North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: karl and paul, expostulating
On 19 Feb 1997 21:55:30 -0800, you wrote: >>>>>> "KD" == Karl Denninger <[email protected]> writes: > > KD> or a 421 error, which keeps the spam at the source (loading the > KD> spammers mailserver -- a GOOD thing!) > >Are you joking? There's not a spammer alive that uses sendmail or >something that would similiarly requeue on temporary failure. > > KD> Much more elegant, in my opinion. > >Assuming that 'sendspam' would actually maintain a queue. > >Paul's solution has its own elegance: raising the price for allowing >antisocial behavior from bounced email to partial loss of >connectivity. But like Paul said, raising the stakes like that just >invites someone to try and one up him. What's so elegant about that if a spammer with elementary knowledge about SMTP and DNS can easily bounce his stuff off of any of the thousands of unsuspecting hosts and/or use unsuspecting forwarding name servers in the slave mode? >Daniel Simms There is more than one way to burn a book. Dima - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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