Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
Like I said...if it taxes their resources even one tenth of one percent,
I'm for it.
It's not their resources, it's the resources they have stolen from other
people by breaking into their systems. Greylisting really, and truly, isn't
a problem for spammers, unless it's coupled with use of blacklists.
Just because the spammers have stolen their distribution network doesn't
mean that it has no value to them. The distribution network has a very
low cost but that's not the same thing as having a very low value. Most
spam is delivered overnight and on the weekend. I think that there are
two reasons for this. The older reason is to keep the bots off of the
RBLs. But I think that the bigger reason to deliver spam off hours is to
protect the botnet from detection. I think that this makes the spammers
very sensitive to the duration of a spam run. I don't think that many
people are grey listing right now but I think that it's increasing
rapidly. On an internet where most people grey list I think that the
spammers must see grey listing as a major problem because of what it
does the duration of a spam run.
-- Chris
--
__o "All I was doing was trying to get home from work."
_`\<,_ -Rosa Parks
___(*)/_(*)___________________________________________________________
Christopher Sean Hilton <chris | at | vindaloo.com>
pgp key: D0957A2D/f5 30 0a e1 55 76 9b 1f 47 0b 07 e9 75 0e 14
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
