Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

[Barry Shein]

Oh to some extent even the first time it's because they're slackers.

If instead of a brainless rush to sign up dial-up accts and check
credentials later they demanded a credit card or other verifiable
information (a phone number we can call you back at to activate) then
they'd burn up about 99.9% of the opportunities for spammers to get
throw-away, anonymous accounts.


I say this from absolutely first-hand experience.



On August 27, 2002 at 15:22 vixie@vix.com (Paul Vixie) wrote:
 > 
 > vixie@vix.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
 > 
 > > whenever you get spammed, it's because some isp somewhere is a slacker,
 > 
 > what i meant to say was "whenever you're getting repeat spam from the same
 > place, day after week after month, it's because some isp somewhere is a
 > slacker."  any given isp can be attacked and used to send outbound spam.
 > but not every isp can be used in this way over and over by the same bunch
 > of people.  to the second group, i say: "please shift the cost of dealing
 > with spam from your network, back inside your network."
 > -- 
 > Paul Vixie

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        -Barry Shein

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