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on Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:55:40PM -0800, Tim Thorpe wrote: > > If these exist then why are we still having problems? See my reply to the thread "SMTP relaying policies for Commercial ISP customers...?" -- we have problems because the spammers are a lot smarter than any of us and can bounce from one infected host to another, in an attempt to evade network-specific traps, and few ISPs do anything at all to stop them. > Why do we let customers who have been infected flood the networks with > traffic as they do? Very good question. > Should they not also be responsible for the security of their computers? Do > we not do enough to educate? Yes, and no. -- hesketh.com/inc. v: (919) 834-2552 f: (919) 834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com Book publishing is second only to furniture delivery in slowness. -b. schneier
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