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FW: "Make love, not spam"....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miller, Mark)
Mon Nov 29 10:32:35 2004
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:29:32 -0700
From: "Miller, Mark" <mark.miller@qwest.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Scratch that... Yes, the A record. You are right.
I need coffee or something... :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Mark=20
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:27 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....
Not the A, the PTR... But yes, that could be a nasty retaliation by
spammers with control of their DNS. I would hope, however, that the
"screen saver's" target would be an IP address instead of a FQ mnemonic
hostname.
From the article, I understand that Lycos will be manually watching the
list of targets and pushing updates to the users. Although I have
traditionally been in favor of low bandwidth "fixes", this kind of
appeals to my sense of poetic justice.
-mark
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Mike Tancsa
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:12 AM
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam"....
...
What about the case where the spammer gets black listed, traffic starts=20
pounding the rouge site and then the spammer changes the A record to be=20
www.example.com instead. Now all of a sudden www.example.com is being=20
pounded by all those screen savers.
---Mike=20
