[170504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Fri Mar 28 09:36:47 2014
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:30:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <715CE67A-5538-48BB-B91B-F4708EA3CD0D@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
> This assumes a different economic model of SPAM that I have been lead to
> believe exists.
>
> My understanding is that the people sending the SPAM get paid
> immediately and that the people paying them to send it are the ones
> hoping that the advertising/phishing/etc. are acted on.
Fine, then the people paying the people who do the spamming have more of
an incentive to pay higher rates and more spammers. It doesn't really
matter how may layers of abstraction there are, the point is that the main
motivator has become more attractive.
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