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echo: osdebate
to: Geo
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2006-11-12 09:42:38
subject: Re: Attack the spammers

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4556a113$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> "/m"  wrote in message
> news:sokbl21571eo9l4at6onc4cralo1410t6k{at}4ax.com...
>
>> It discusses the difference between civilized and uncivilized behavior.
>
> War is usually not a civilized activity.. Spam is now 90% of the
> connections
> to mail servers, ALL mail servers.
>
> Besides, I suggested something very similar to this a while back on the
> security lists. What I had suggested was that we tell people that instead
> of
> ignoring spam they should place orders for whatever was being sold and use
> fake information for the orders in an attempt to make it too expensive to
> sort the crap from the real orders. Spam the spammers, do to them what
> they
> are doing to our email systems.

Lately almost all spam I'm getting is just nonsense, or stock numbers,
without any link to order anything...


Antti Kurenniemi

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