Re: Spam King arrested

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:

> It's all well-and-good, as much of the mainstream media has, to herald 
this arrest, and it's understandable that those NOT well-versed in the 
workings of modern spam and other Email-based shenanigans might further 
herald such an arrest as "likely to result in a reduction in spam", as 
most of the mainstream media has, but folk like ferg know all too well 
that simply taking out one of those big operators will have pretty much 
exactly no effect on the problem, as the slime "advertising" through 
spam will simply move to other spammers, and the spammers (or at least, 
their botherders) may engage in a turf war trying to wrest control of 
the eliminated operator's botnets.
>

Actually, yes -- that's exactly it. :-)

- - ferg

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