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Re: Attacking the throwaway-domain problem

2003-10-15 09:04:10
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:54:12PM +0200, Nicolas Bougues wrote:
- in order for them to send cheaply, spammers have to obfuscate
  themselves, and/or make unauthorized use of hijacked
  computers. Anything that would make them less anonymous, thus
  prosecutable in more countries every day, would severly handicap
  them. SPF is about that.

Yes, SPF is about that, but the particular suggestion I was
responding to here didn't make the spammers any less anonymous.
It was merely a small inconvenience for them.  History has
shown that such inconveniences are quickly overcome.

-- 
Erik Corry erik(_at_)arbat(_dot_)com
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-replying such a bad thing?
A: Top-replying.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in email?

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