Re: Dealing with spam

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Pablo Sanchez (pablo@mew.corp.sgi.com)
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:01:26 -0600


On Apr 23, 4:51pm, Scott Norwood wrote:
> Subject: Re: Dealing with spam
> On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Edward Reid wrote:
>
> > There's a lot of talk about technical solutions to spam. I don't
> > see any real progress in controlling email spam. I regret to say
> > that I believe a legislative solution will be required.
>
> Please, no.

Agreed!

> If they can't afford their T1, then they won't be able to send spam
> out. If their provider cuts off their accounts, they won't be able
> to send spam. If their system crashes (either due to an overload
> in mail sent to abuse@site, root@site, postmaster@site, etc. or due
> to an outside attack [very tempting...cyberpromo.com runs Sendmail
> v8.7.3...]), then the ability to send spam out will be severely
> curtailed.

If I was the type of person who wanted to abuse the net, I would:

o sell spamming software to everyone and anyone
o alias {abuse,root,postmaster}@site to /dev/null
o be very secure about my system

My point is what was suggested won't do any good... eventually. I
really believe that the only way to combat spam is at the receiving
end. Kinda backwards but...

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