I agree with Mike, and am somewhat gloomy on ever legally shutting down spammers.
We may accomplish this in the U.S., but offshore beckons and they will set up there. We face what the military calls "bullets vs armor". In this game usually bullets win. I think we will be battling them forever, them killing our cpu cycles grinding on useless electronic garbage. I think as a whole we have to come up with some form of "aggressive armor" that identifies spammers and makes it costly for them to continue. We can't take them out but we can make it painful. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Nice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 8:14 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] New spam techniques to be successful? > > > I think that in 2 years we will all see > > less spam as a result of the measures that AOL and MSN are taking. > > I believe that what the technical measures AOL and MSN are doing today > are just stopgap measures that reduce the spam volume temporarily, but have > only sent the spammer scrambling to set their networks up with reverse DNS > and acceptable rDNS names. The only measure that is somewhat effective is > the flock of lawyers you can point to the senders. This will only encourage > another level of technological indirection to distance the spammer from the > sending networks as they scurry to hide from the flock of lawyers. > > Spammers can set up their networks to comply with the newly proposed DNS > based SMTP authentication techniques as easily as I can. The next > generation of RBL will need to block based on the authoritative DNS IP to > get around this "DNS controlled by spammer". As has been pointed out > elsewhere, SMTP Greylisting can easily be bypassed with today's spam tools. > > I predict that 6 months from now, AOL will see the same overloading > crisis on their mailservers that led to the drastic measures in the last > month or so. > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 4/24/2003 To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
