Spammers watching this user forum
guenter strubinsky
strubinsky@acm.org
Sat Jul 19 01:17:00 GMT 2003
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> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Andrew DeFaria
> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2003 18:13
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum
>
> Steve Coleman wrote:
>
> > My current thoughts.. Most spammers use open relays as their way to
> > move their email into the legitimate Internet email system
>
> Are you sure about this? I know spammers abuse open relays but I'm not
> as certain that the majority of their spamming occurs over open relays.
>
> > If enough machines on the internet listened on port 25 out there and
> > "ate" all the spammers junk like this then the spammers would have a
> > tough time staying in business by trying to use open relays, because
> > they would never know if their cruft was /dev/null'ed or not.
>
> You probably will have as much luck convincing people who have open
> relays (either on purpose or by accident) to configure a "spam eater" as
> you would just having them close their open relay! As such this plan
> would probably never work.
<thinking>hmm,
well, we could use a worm for that?
</thinking>
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