[75972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Make love, not spam"....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Mon Nov 29 11:04:03 2004
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:59:59 +0000 (UTC)
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Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
> Already noted as unbelievably stupid and dissected on Spam-L,
I'm inclined to agree...
> but: getting into a bandwidth contest with spammers is a guaranteed
> loss, as they have an [essentially] infinite amount available to
> them for free. Apparently Lycos is unaware of zombies (including
> those hosting web sites), HTTP redirectors, rapidly-updating DNS,
> throwaway domains, and other facts of life in the spam sewer.
... but this screensaver means that Lycos *also* have a botnet
available to them.
--
The advice given me about Maglites is to hold it out sideways from yourself
but at shoulder height, this makes the opponent think you are standing 3
foot to one side of reality.
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