[69254] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Thu Apr 1 09:40:20 2004
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:35:10 -0800
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> What would happen if an ISP's mail server were to collect
> the URLs in emails and then retrieve the URL. Wouldn't
> this create a lot of false positives for the spammer thus
> screwing with their business model?
It has to be smarter; this would not reproduce the decay rate, for
example. Would fool only beginners.
Michel.