From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 03:56 PM 12/17/2005, Pollywog wrote:
On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:
Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of
zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate.
Does this surprise you at all?
Yes, because
For about two weeks, I have noticed something very odd. I get connections
from mail servers (mostly in Germany) and each server tries to send one spam
to a nonexistent user, then a different server (often at a university in
Germany) will try with a different recipient, then a few seconds
Pollywog wrote:
For about two weeks, I have noticed something very odd. I get connections
from mail servers (mostly in Germany) and each server tries to send one spam
to a nonexistent user, then a different server (often at a university in
Germany) will try with a different recipient, then
On Saturday, December 17, 2005, 12:56:47 PM, Pollywog Pollywog wrote:
On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:
Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of
zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate.
Does this surprise you at all?
Yes, because spammers
Does this surprise you at all?
Yes, because spammers are stupid
Not ALL spammers are stupid. They probably don't even consider themselves
unethical; but that is a side discussion.
I would say in general that there are two classes of spammers: those that
can make and/or very effectively use
At 03:56 PM 12/17/2005, Pollywog wrote:
On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:
Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of
zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate.
Does this surprise you at all?
Yes, because spammers are stupid and I had not seen
REALLY OT:
Sure, some of them are stupid, but not all are.
Isn't that statement true of all stereotypes.. Women... Geeks..
Nerds... Men... Windows Admins (who write perl scripts -- me), Etc,
etc, so forth, so on?
(not stupidity...)
In general stereotypes are created out of frustration
