At 02:35 PM 4/9/2003 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
I guess what I'm trying to say though is that you can't know what they'd
do with a genuine open proxy unless you have a genuine open proxy. You can
see what they're trying to achieve up to an extent, but you can't go all
the way without having a proper full blown open proxy. And I don't imagine
you really want one of those ;-)
Personally no, I don't. I don't even advocate them. But there is a
point to be made: whether or not i do have an open proxy makes absolutely
no difference as far as the amount of spam that is delivered. There are so
many open proxies that my having one would not influence the abuse done
through open proxies in the slightest. (Having an open proxy honeypot may
slightly reduce the amount of abuse.)
If I had my choice it would be for some, many, most, or all of the open
proxies already being abused, say in the telesp.br space, to be changed to
open proxy honeypots. The spammers use them, trust them. It would be easy
to deceive the spammers by changing them over.
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