[51906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Tue Sep 10 09:44:24 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:45:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0209100326470.18528-100000@meron.openu.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Hi Eliot
>
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious but do how you get rate-limiting per
> TCP *flow* with Cisco IOS ?
It is more trouble than its worth. SPAM is not a technical problem. It is a
social problem. Using technical methods is not going to solve the problem.
In the end, every time we come up with another method of detecting and
blocking spam, another method is bypassing this defense is going to show up.
Alex
