On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Barry Shein wrote:
Yes, but the very assumption that anyone would "take down" a zombie PC
(block, disable, whatever) belies the "end-user control" notion of
spam.
For all I know there's someone out there who wants that zombie to spew
at them, maybe they're doing research or something. And, by EFF's
recommendations, it would be morally repugnant for an ISP to thus
interfere.
Who interfered? If somebody wants to accept spam from zombie pc - they can
go ahead (ok, they may have to tell their ISP that they want to do it or
may have to run their own mail server with different set of policies).
So although it might be a slightly different case, it's the same exact
issue.
You just think no one is crazy enough to defend zombie PCs, and I'd
like to think you're correct. But as far as I can tell EFF is that
crazy.
Well since they "that crazy" to hold a view it as that anybody has the
right to send then any kind forged and spoofed of email and its their
responsibility to (re)view every one of those emails manually to determine
if its something they wanted to receive, perhaps we need to run a small
test campaign of their convictions - how about all the spamtraps instead
of sending zombie spam to /dev/null instead start forwarding and [re]forged
those email to EFF! :) So anybody knows list of their officers who are good
audience to read about what email traffic originates from zombied machines?
Perhaps even a screensaver could be created to help in this process ... :)
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net
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