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Oh to some extent even the first time it's because they're slackers. If instead of a brainless rush to sign up dial-up accts and check credentials later they demanded a credit card or other verifiable information (a phone number we can call you back at to activate) then they'd burn up about 99.9% of the opportunities for spammers to get throw-away, anonymous accounts. I say this from absolutely first-hand experience. On August 27, 2002 at 15:22 [email protected] (Paul Vixie) wrote: > > [email protected] (Paul Vixie) writes: > > > whenever you get spammed, it's because some isp somewhere is a slacker, > > what i meant to say was "whenever you're getting repeat spam from the same > place, day after week after month, it's because some isp somewhere is a > slacker." any given isp can be attacked and used to send outbound spam. > but not every isp can be used in this way over and over by the same bunch > of people. to the second group, i say: "please shift the cost of dealing > with spam from your network, back inside your network." > -- > Paul Vixie -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | [email protected] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo*
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