Re: [Asrg] Email service assumptions and making system-wide changes

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:

> I am surprised that after all these years the problem of spam is
> still so fundamentally misunderstood.
>
> The problem at this point are viral-infected zombie bot armies.

Yes, and when that gets solved, there will be a new problem.  Remember
when the problem was open relays?  That's solved, spam is still here.

> Stop or significantly slow that and they're defunct, they can't hit
> us with billions of msgs per day for the paltry sums they're
> earning.

Unless they find another method of emitting spam.  I can think of
several (which I'm going to hope don't get known, so they won't be
revealed).

> But for the love all that is good and right let's try to agree on
> what the problem is.

The problem isn't the sending technique they're using this month.

Seth

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