[170382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Wed Mar 26 23:23:22 2014
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:21:19 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <21299.6913.50963.426979@world.std.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: dcrocker@bbiw.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/26/2014 11:22 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
> What makes IP address mobility possible is mass, unauthorized if not
> simply illegal use of others' resources, such as with botnets or
> massive exploiting of holes in web hosting sites' software.
Except that compromised personal computers are 'valid' by all normal
metrics.
An army of such machines provides a kind of address mobility that is not
detected by any normal means.
> Fundamentally spam is a security isse.
In the same way as burglary is a security issue, yeah. Which is to say
that fundamentally, spam is a social issue, like any other crime.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
