Anti spam solutions

Anthony de Boer adb-tlug-AbAJl/g/NLXk1uMJSBkQmQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 8 17:31:02 UTC 2003


Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > [ SMTP size-limits to block M$ worms ]
> > ...Perhaps the solution is to make everyone go back to communicating 
> > at 9,600bps?
> 
> Instituting the death penalty for spamming might help. :-)

But what should we do with Windows users who don't defend their machines?

When the current worm-onslaught started, I observed a definite dip in the
amount of spam I get; either the spam was fighting the worm for bandwidth
and losing, or the spammers had gotten infected and were busy reinstalling
their machines instead of using them for evil.

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