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Re: [Asrg] Re: "worm spam" and SPF

2004-12-03 18:22:59
At 5:59 PM +0200 12/3/04, Gadi Evron imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:
Unlike what was said here, using techniques that will force spammers to learn and adapt is not always a bad thing, when pressing them to the corner.

That's all that CAN be done.

If all spammers were like those at Amazon and Verisign and Digital Impact and eDialog and Responsys, dealing with spam would not be a big deal. Even the borderline semi-legit cases like OptInBig and over-the-borderline cases like Atriks can be dealt with because they try to look like the 'legitimate' entities that acquire addresses without real permission and mail them without end: they all make true (if at times deceptive) assertions of their identity in SMTP and in the mail headers and usually the message body of their spam. The more spammers can be boxed into saying "Hi, I'm, Spammer X" in their spam and the more worms can be boxed into "Hi, I'm Joe Idiot's infected machine", the easier it becomes to not hand either sort of mail to users. It also makes it swifter and easier to drive the business model of spamming into hopelessness and to identify the users who need to be walled in behind in loco parentis firewalls.


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Bill Cole bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com


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