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Re: challenge-response filtering?

  • Subject: Re: challenge-response filtering?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 10:32:37 +0100
  • Newsgroups: news.software.readers
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ Charles Lasitter ] on Friday 26 May 2006 16:35 \__

> On Sun, 14 May 2006 08:14:21 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> As  a  side note, did you know that half of the global traffic
>> of spam  is estimated  to  have been sent from compromised
>> Windows boxes? I find  that outrageous.
> 
> Given the lousy quality of IE / OE / M$ OSs and M$ software
> generally, my response would be:
> 
> "Is that all?"

No, yet it doesn't make it acceptable, either. *smile*

I am sometimes bitter when I observe that comment spam and DDOS attack are
also attributed to the same platform. I am a sufferer of these. *sigh*

Best wishes,

Roy

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