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<pan.2006.10.02.21.45.47.768000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Meat Plow <meat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:29:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Has Frothed:
>
>> Subject: [News] 64.4% of E-mail is SPAM (Thanks, Microsoft!)
>> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
>> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:29:59 +0100
>>
>> Old spammers learn new tricks
>>
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>> | Spam Bot operations are increasing in particularly in South American
>> | countries where it is the favoured method of distributing bank trojans
>> | and phishing scams.
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>> Zombie PCs spew out 80% of spam
>
> That's retransmitted by 'nix mx servers.
Enlighten us as to how many servers retransmit an average email? Your
knowledge of how 'mx servers' work is eagerly awaited.
The cost of filtering spam and other nasty email payloads sent by
winbot systems is enormous. The solution is to fix this problem at the
source of this crap not at the recipient end.
--
Is god willing to prevent evil but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and
willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then
why call him god? - Epicurus (341-270 BCE)
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