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Re: [Asrg] Proposal ....

2003-03-13 06:50:15
On Thursday, Mar 13, 2003, at 02:16 Europe/London, mathew wrote:

And the asshat system administrators who leave their systems as open relays will get a "slashdot effect" of spam, as 100,000 spam victims call to collect the sales pitch, saturating the open relay machine's network connection and maybe even taking it down. Chances are, most of the victims' machines will be unable to get through, and so the spam won't appear to those people.

Why wouldn't the spammer do what he does now, and deposit his email on 1000 open relays, making it only 100 connections to the victim's machine (which just looks like a prolific poster)?

Matt.

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