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Re: [Asrg] News Article - Microsoft and spam

"Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortelnetworks.com> Thu, 26 June 2003 21:29 UTC

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Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> I think that we have to be realistic about the cost/benefit issue here.
> 
> Yes it is possible for a spammer to hire people to sign up for these
> schemes. However to do so requires capital which has an effect on the
> starting out spam senders.
> 
> A spam sender that tries to do this in  bulk is going to start to hit limits
> on the number of addresses a given IP address can sign up for at a time. 

Multiply that by the at least 200,000 unsecured proxies in the wild.

> It strikes me that it might be a good scheme to allow the spam senders to
> register large numbers of domains but mark them as being suspect spamhaus
> addresses. Then monitor the emails being sent out with spam filters and chop
> the account.

Gets back to the issue of how you detect spam...


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