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Re: SPF will solve spam and punish spammers

2004-07-23 13:01:53
Le vendredi 23 Juillet 2004 21:54, Andriy G. Tereshchenko a écrit :

Now consider that 99,9999% of the "trojan spam" and viruses come from
Windows machines, thanks to the lack of security provided by this
so-called operating system, and now you know where the problem really is.
The problem, actually, is not with the users.

0,0001% ?
Do not make false claims. There is a lot of misconfigured SendMail, Squid,
mailto.cgi and hacked *nix boxes. Even more - some of hacked boxes have
firewall-less 100Mbit+ internet connections and unristricted traffic. Do
not make false claims anymore plz.

Maybe I wasn't precise enough, so you didn't understand my meaning. In the 
context of the conversation, I was talking about machines that sends tons of 
spam (because of trojans and viruses) that are commonly found on IAP's 
customers networks (cable, DSL...)

I wasn't talking about 99,9999% of spam in general, but 99,9999% of spam 
coming from such trojaned end-user machines.

I know there actually are cracked *nix boxes with high bandwidth and 
unrestricted traffic, but:
1/ They have generally fixed IP (so can be blacklisted rather quick)
2/ They are usually not on IAP's end-users cable/DSL networks, and thus are 
not relevant in the issue of "IAPs deciding to filter port 25" that we were 
discussing.

Regards.

-- 
Michel Bouissou <michel(_at_)bouissou(_dot_)net> OpenPGP ID 0xDDE8AC6E