[71808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Hamelin)
Wed Jun 23 20:30:03 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:26:00 -0700
From: Joe Hamelin <nethead@gmail.com>
To: Larry Pingree <lpingree@juniper.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <29DB430543B82240A27F1525D7FC13E44D749A@exch04.corp.netscreen.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:40:23 -0700, Larry Pingree <lpingree@juniper.net> wrote:
> I agree with you it's a hard problem to solve. But unless there is
> mandatory cooperation within mail server software (which can be
> monitored) to interface with a registry of acceptable/registered sites,
> then this model could work.
I can telnet to a mailserver and send mail to that host without much
thought. What good will a registry do? What will solve spam is
getting some of these virus writers to actually write some code that
will trash disks of poorly patched (if a at all) hosts. Let Darwin
take over.
-Joe
