[170489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 28 02:18:27 2014
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1403271635160.6633@brugal.local>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:14:46 -0700
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
>=20
>> On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> Please explain in detail where the fraud potential comes in.
>=20
> Spammer uses his botnet of zombie machines to send email from each of =
them to his own domain using the user's legitimate email address as =
From:. Spammer says it was unsolicited and keeps the full $.10/email =
that victim users have deposited into this escrow thing.
>=20
> Sounds a lot more profitable than regular spam.
You say this like having a tax on running a botted computer on the =
internet would be a bad thing.
I agree that it would provide a bit of profit to the spammers for a very =
short period of time, but I bet it would get a lot of bots fixed pretty =
quick.
Owen
