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Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:45:07 -0500
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:16:17PM -0500, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
What would you suggest a vendor do against a spammer? Sue? Bribe? Assault?
<chuckle> "What we need are a couple of good hangings." --- FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle, 2003 The real answer to your question is much longer. If you're so interested in these things, why aren't you on spam-l, which is pretty much where anybody with expert-level skills in this subject area hangs out? I feel like I'm giving you a paragraph-by-paragraph tutorial on anti-spam theory and practice 101 here. Maybe I should be charging for this. ;-) But there are quite a few things $VENDOR can do, none of which require any illegal or unethical or even expensive or complicated actions. However...since these same actions might endanger the revenue stream, they're very seldom undertaken. $VENDOR is not here to stop spammers: $VENDOR is here to line their pockets by taking advantage of the Internet's collective misery. And some $VENDORS are pretty blatant about it: heck, I've even got a small blacklist of supposedly-anti-spam vendors that have spammed to promote their anti-spam products and services. How incredibly sleazy is that? Now...youse wouldn't want anything bad maybe to happen to ya mail servers, wouldja? Or, Brit version: Luigi: How many men you got here, Colonel? Colonel: Oh, errr...seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and errr, two divisions of paratroops. Luigi: Paratroops, Dino. Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them. Colonel: Set fire to them? Luigi: Fires happen, Colonel. Dino: Things burn. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious, (continued)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 23)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious der Mouse (Feb 22)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious der Mouse (Feb 22)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Rich Kulawiec (Feb 23)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 23)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Dan Kaminsky (Feb 23)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Rich Kulawiec (Feb 24)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Dan Kaminsky (Feb 24)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Rich Kulawiec (Feb 25)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Dan Kaminsky (Feb 25)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Rich Kulawiec (Feb 25)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Hubbard, Dan (Feb 25)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Drsolly (Feb 10)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious rackow (Feb 10)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious der Mouse (Feb 10)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Dan Kaminsky (Feb 21)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 21)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Rich Kulawiec (Feb 22)
- Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious Dan Kaminsky (Feb 22)