From: /m 

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:42:39 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>"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...

I can't figure out if the person sending hasn't a clue that bad spam (now
there's an oxymoron if there ever were one) is being sent, or if the person
is just trying to send so much spam that the spam filters clog up and have
to be shut down (as my company did recently).

 /m

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