On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
(...)
> Spammers can change their names, change their addresses, alter the
> length and content of their mail, forge their headers, hide behind
> proxies, register their assets in the Carribean, get sex changes and
> crouch down behind shubberies, but there is one fingerprint they can
> never, ever change: in order to have a prayer of making a profit, they
> have to send out a lot of mail, really quickly.
>
> If I see a host that I do not recognize appear out of the blue and
> start pumping hundreds or thousands of messages an hour into my mail
> server, the odds are pretty on that it's a spammer. If it's not, I'm
> not averse to apologizing later on.
(...)
Is Nathan trying to explain that qmail sends mail so fast that it
can't be natural ? ;-)
