Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics

"Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com> Fri, 31 December 2004 16:14 UTC

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From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "'ge@linuxbox.org'" <ge@linuxbox.org>
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:59:47 -0500
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If they are moving over port 25, its smtp traffic by design. Is is safe to
classify this traffic as "spam" by its nature? 


-M



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Martin Hannigan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com>
CC: asrg@johnlevine.com <asrg@johnlevine.com>; asrg@ietf.org <asrg@ietf.org>
Sent: Fri Dec 31 07:59:48 2004
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics

Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> 
> So what are we saying? Systemic destruction of spam is not necessary? 

No. It simply says that spam is not the biggest bandwidth bogger - by 
itself. With viruses and spyware I'd put money on it.

	Gadi.

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