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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > J.D. Falk > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers > > > > On 02/03/05, "Miller, Mark" <[email protected]> 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. ..or a cost issue. Most of these users are people who have decided not to spend the $40 to defend their machine at home. -M<
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