[69343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anti-Spam Router -- opinions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Tue Apr 6 16:49:10 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:44:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>,
<Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <40731548.2080105@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> >On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> >>If you rate-limit 2 million compromised machines to 20 msgs/day each,
> >>there's only 400 million spams. Total.
> >this implies network operators will suddenly find a clue, something which
> >will never happen. ever.
> Clue is generally available in exchange of money. However it requires a
> seed of foresight or clue to hire more in. Or a business neccessity and
> a strike of luck. Clue only pays in the long run, so todays
> quarter-capitalism does not promote clue.
So we need to make it expensive to avoid clue.
-Dan
