[66120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MS's new antispam idea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Dec 27 00:29:29 2003
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:28:38 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312261419040.10076-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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It's an interesting concept... Now spammers will use a noticeable portion =
of
the CPU on the boxes they've hijacked, instead of the currently virtually
unnoticable portion of the resources, so, in that sense, it might help=20
identify
the owned boxes to their true owners.
However, I think Micr0$0ft could do much more to reduce SPAM if they simply
made their OS less 0wn-able.
Owen
--On Friday, December 26, 2003 2:23 PM +0000 "Stephen J. Wilcox"=20
<steve@telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3324883.stm
>
> Ok so in summary you have to use a bit of CPU to solve a puzzle before it
> lets you send email.
>
> So either this doesn't work because spammers dont actually use their own
> PCs to send email or we are talking about a whole new mail protocol,
> either way I'm thinking this isnt going to work and its yet another
> publicity stunt.
>
> Steve
>
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If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.
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