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Re: Unplugging spamming PCs

  • From: Joe Hamelin
  • Date: Wed Jun 23 20:31:45 2004 
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:40:23 -0700, Larry Pingree <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree with you it's a hard problem to solve. But unless there is
> mandatory cooperation within mail server software (which can be
> monitored) to interface with a registry of acceptable/registered sites,
> then this model could work. 

I can telnet to a mailserver and send mail to that host without much
thought.  What good will a registry do?  What will solve spam is
getting some of these virus writers to actually write some code that
will trash disks of poorly patched (if a at all) hosts.  Let Darwin
take over.

-Joe