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Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Larry Qualig wrote:
>
>>
>> Roy Culley wrote:
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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
>>> >>
>>> >> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> >> | Spam Bot operations are increasing in particularly in South American
>>> >> | countries where it is the favoured method of distributing bank
>>> >> | trojans and phishing scams.
>>> >> `----
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> 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.
>>
>> The better solution is to fix the underlying protocol so that spam
>> can't be sent.
>
> There you go... Microsoft thinking at its finest! Rather than fix the root
> problem... crappy windows os's... try and gigger the protocol to cover up
> the os's fault... and in the process twist the protocol in such a manner
> that it only runs on windows and... OOPPPSSSSS.... we can't publish the
> spec, it's proprietary...
>
> Yeah... right...
>
>
Of course, Roy C's question regarding MX is highly pertinent. I, too,
would be happy to be enlightened regarding this new use of MX machines.
>
>
>
>> Assuming that the story is accurate and that zombies
>> really do send 80% of the spam, this means that the remaining 20%
>> (still a large number) is somehow being sent legitimately. If all
>> zombie PC's were to vanish then spammers would switch to using this
>> "20% method" and continue sending their spam.
>>
>> The current protocols were developed back when there were a couple of
>> hundred guys on the net and spam wasn't even conceived of. The better
>> solution is to update the mail protocols and how mail is distributed
>> over the net such that spam can't be sent - period.
>
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