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

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

On January 16, 2006 at 17:06 sethb at panix.com (Seth Breidbart) wrote:
 > 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.

So by your reasoning we shouldn't have bothered to close the open
relays?

I don't think there are all that many opportunities open to spammers
to cause the kind of global mayhem they cause, and raising their cost
of business (i.e., forcing them to retool drastically over and over)
should have its effects on them.

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