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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

  • From: Paul Ferguson
  • Date: Wed Aug 15 04:02:44 2007

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- -- "Chris L. Morrow" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> More than ~85% of all spam is being generated by spambots.
>
>yes, that relates to my question how though? I asked: "Do spammers monitor
>the domain system in order to spam from the domains in flux as tastinng
>domains?" I asked this specifically because that behavior was being used
>as a 'resaon to stop tasting', or to clamp down on it atleast.
>

The answer to your question is "Yes, sometimes."

But that's not the explicit reasoning behind the motivations
behind tasting.


>Conflating the 3 (or parts of the 2 sets) is
>just as wrong as saying that 'tasting lets the terrorists win'.

Completely agree, and would not want to paint this problem in
that light.

Again, this problem is multi-fold: bad actors gaming the system for
illicit (and illegal) purposes.

- - ferg

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