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Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu May 20 10:03:08 2004

To: joe <joej@rocknyou.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 2004 22:54:55 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:02:28 -0400
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On Wed, 19 May 2004 22:54:55 EDT, joe <joej@rocknyou.com>  said:

> either
> 1: SMTP/ESMTP is fixed so that spoofing cannot occur
> or
> 2: Another method/protocol of email/messaging is adopted

3: We change the economics of spamming in some other fashion.  I've been
advocating taking up a collection - every ISP that has an inbound spam pr=
oblem
kicks in just $100 - if there's 4,000 ISP's in the US (including all thos=
e
mom&pop sites with E-bay routers), that's a pretty chunk of change.  We t=
hen
hire a few representatives from <choose ethnic organized crime> to "expla=
in our
point of view" to a few of the aforementioned 200 big offenders...

Unfortunately, there's these concepts of "legality" and "morality" involv=
ed... :)

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