Josh Paetzel wrote:
I could probably dodge a lot of it by running ssh on an alternate
port, but then I'd have to find something besides reading the logs to
amuse myself with.
...more amusing than reading logs? Impossible!<g>
The only viable solution to the problem of spam that I can see (and
I'm positive that it would never happen) is an international agency
tasked to track down and punish the people responsible for spam.
They'd have to have the power to go after these people no matter what
country they were hiding in, the resources to make a dent in the
problem, and the cooperation of a significant percentage of mail
admins on the net.
I came up with an alternative strategy a while back, that might render
spam a dead end... what would happen if terrorists used spam to sell
Viagra or something over the Internet, that turned out to actually be
cyanide, or better yet... smallpox?
"Spam depends on one thing, in order to succeed... people have to read
it, and reply to it, and get out their credit cards, and click on the
links in the spam, and order the Penis Pillz, and the glass dildos, and
the pornography, and the other demented stuff, that spam promises.
Once spam turns into a homicidal enterprise, there probably will not be
enough suckers left, to permit spam any viability."
http://robertwittig.net/2005/murder_by_spam.html
Perhaps a slightly more likely scenario would be to make it a crime to
run an open relay? I'd also like to see ISPs take measures to
protect the net from trojaned windows machines on high-speed DSL and
cable connections....perhaps allowing access only to their
mailservers?
Anyways, enough pipe dreams, I have to get back to reading my logs.
The sendmail logs are good reading to.<g>
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-wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/
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