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.
--
Bill Cole
bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com
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