On 7/23/04 5:29 AM, "Richard Cox" <richard@mandarin.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:27:37 -1000 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
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> | all they need to do is register foo.bar with delegation to their
> | dns servers, and change a third level domain name at will.
>
> Er, no. They have of course tried that already!
>
> By registering foo.bar with delegation to THEIR dns servers gives full
> identification of THEIR dns servers, and the host or upstream of those
> servers can (and often does) start invoking their acceptable use policy.
> If not, then all the considerations that Paul V. recently cited about
> neighbours who allow bad things on their network, start to kick in.
>
> The scenario I have outlined - now well established, and the mechanism
> understood - allows the malfeasants to operate on the 'net with zero
> traceability of their identity or location, based on everything they do
> being able to be done through zombied Windows PCs or open(ed) proxies.
The distribution of spam is only half of the economy at work here. Spam
doesn't occur in a vacuum. The other half is the "site(s)" profiting from
the spam.
Let's just be clear that not all sites mentioned in spam are profiting at
all. Spammers mention sites unrelated to what they're advertising to:
