On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 5:43 PM, John Levine wrote: > >> Ah, I see the problem. You're assuming that spammers will follow the >> rules. That's a poor assumption. >> >> > No, I am assuming the spammers will do as they have always done in the > past - attempt to use other people's computers for free. Other computers > that are NOT cycling through lots of IP number in the > normal case. > I didn't want to get into this debate, but I think this point is naively optimistic. If a system is capable of cycling through IP addresses, the spammer will take advantage of this. It is trivial to do this on a Linux machine without disrupting operation of the owner's software by adding/removing IP aliases. I would assume there is a way to do it on Windows as well, although it is better hidden. Warren
