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Posted By: The Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Re: I know I'm in the minority here, but.... (Sandi Moses)
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, at 4:43 p.m.
> As much as I appreciate what The Roadie and his fellow volunteers do, I
> agree. I have never gotten that many - or anywhere near that many - but I
> can't help but think that intelligent, knowledgeable people can find a way
> to filter out the spam without knocking out the innocent people. Fishermen
> found a way to catch tuna without all those dolphins and turtles, and
> internet-savvy people have to come up with a way to filter out spam and
> let the regular mail through.
Not sufficient, when unchecked spammers could flood the Internet backbones with enough spam to choke any conceivable mail server. There isn't enough CPU power to run filters against the trillions of emails that could happen if spammers weren't subject to ANY sort of control.
Ten years ago, AOL estimated that $2-3 of their monthly fee went to fund the servers and bandwidth to keep up with the spam threat.
What an unnecessary waste of money!
One of the best ways to filter spammers is to track them, get them booted from their hosts, and let them discover bulletproof hosting in China or Costa Rica or Korea. And then blacklist the entire country they've flocked to. That gets met with cries of "racism" by the countries involved. Sigh..
And the spammers are MUCH more criminal than that anyway. Most virus payloads nowadays are custom-written spam-relay engines installed on the victims computers, on US_based broadband networks, that spam merrily away all night while the computer's *former* owner sleeps.
They're called the botnets, or the zombie armies.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/20/rise_of_the_botnets/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/30/spam_biz/
Current price to buy the IP address of an infected client PC? 2-4 PENNIES per PC.
> The only "list" I have is directly off my website into
> GetResponse, and it is at the lower end of 3 digits. The thought of buying
> a list consisting of people who have never heard of me is scary at best.
> Funny thing but the people who want to buy the lists of millions bitch up
> a blue streak when GetResponse won't let them load the list in. Gee, I
> wonder why.
GetResponse used to allow dirty lists of some size to get uploaded, and they got blacklisted as a result. Now they're clean, and a happy part of the anti-spam community.
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