Re: [Asrg] News Article - Microsoft and spam
Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> Thu, 26 June 2003 16:59 UTC
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From: Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com>
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Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:57:47 -0600
> From: Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> > ... > I was wondering about that as well. Would hiring people for go through the > human interface test increases the costs for spammers? Does it matter since > the cost is so small anyway? What about in a C/R system where a human > interface test is used, would spammers actually go ahead and hire people to > pass the test from each bounced message? Let's do some arithmetic. At $10/hour and 10 seconds per challenge answered or account created, the cost would be about $0.03 address. That sounds a little but not very high to send mail until the challenge whitelist entry is deleted by the spam target. It sounds low for a valid sender account that can be used for millions of messages for days until the free provider notices enough bounces or receives a complaint and terminates it. Free providers often impose delays of more than 10 seconds for account creation. That can be handled by giving your $10/hour employees big monitors and have them run several windows simultaneously to overlap with the delays. Pay them by the account created or challenge answered to keep them busy. Use software to automate most of the process, including counting and checking the work. Don't worry about the U.S. labor laws about piece work, since you're probably breaking lots of other laws. I wonder how much of the flood of "work at home" spam today involves free mail account creation jobs? Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg
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- Re: [Asrg] News Article - Microsoft and spam Yakov Shafranovich
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