[75973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Make love, not spam"....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Nov 29 11:26:00 2004
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:59:59 GMT."
<cofh1v$f48$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:25:21 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <cofh1v$f48$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>, Peter Corlett writes:
>
>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.
Yah -- imagine what happens if Lycos' control machine gets hacked...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
