Spam fighting tools

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:29:31 -0400 (EDT)
Henry Spencer disseminated the following:

> > I realized the rejection is at the smtp protocol level.  That's fine if the 
> > spam is being sent direct to the recipients smtp server (using spam malware 
> > typically) but when a relay is involved (as one often is) I'd expect a
> > bounce 
> > to be generated.
> 
> My impression is that exploiting relay machines is much less popular than
> it used to be, because it's so easy to just operate from zombie machines
> instead, giving more control.  But I could be wrong; it's not something
> I've really kept track of. 

You are on the mark, I'm afraid:

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60747,00.html

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