On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:16:17PM -0500, Dan Kaminsky wrote: > What would you suggest a vendor do against a spammer? > > Sue? > Bribe? > Assault?
<chuckle> "What we need are a couple of good hangings." --- FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle, 2003 The real answer to your question is much longer. If you're so interested in these things, why aren't you on spam-l, which is pretty much where anybody with expert-level skills in this subject area hangs out? I feel like I'm giving you a paragraph-by-paragraph tutorial on anti-spam theory and practice 101 here. Maybe I should be charging for this. ;-) But there are quite a few things $VENDOR can do, none of which require any illegal or unethical or even expensive or complicated actions. However...since these same actions might endanger the revenue stream, they're very seldom undertaken. $VENDOR is not here to stop spammers: $VENDOR is here to line their pockets by taking advantage of the Internet's collective misery. And some $VENDORS are pretty blatant about it: heck, I've even got a small blacklist of supposedly-anti-spam vendors that have spammed to promote their anti-spam products and services. How incredibly sleazy is that? Now...youse wouldn't want anything bad maybe to happen to ya mail servers, wouldja? Or, Brit version: Luigi: How many men you got here, Colonel? Colonel: Oh, errr...seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and errr, two divisions of paratroops. Luigi: Paratroops, Dino. Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them. Colonel: Set fire to them? Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel. Dino: Things burn. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.