Re: [Asrg] Solving spam == Solving zombies/botnets

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk at returnpath.net>]

On 02/12/2008 10:55, "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes at waltdnes.org> wrote:

>   Botnets have evolved.  Instead of trying to send a million emails a
> night through one zombied machine, botnets now send 4 emails a night
> through each of 250,000 machines.  The latter is almost impossible to
> detect, versus the former.
> 
>   What it boils down to is that to majorly reduce spam, we have to
> majorly reduce botnets/zombies.

Hooray!  Let it be shouted throughout the land: on 12th December 2008, the
ASRG caught up to the anti-spam conversation circa 2006.


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