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RE: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Thu Dec 2 16:49:06 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:46:00 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 4:28 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam
> scr eensaver site?
>
>
>
> on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:15:34PM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> quoting me:
> > > My point was to Martin's question about what would happen if - god
> > > forbid - there were large botnets under the control of spammers; a
> > > careful reading will suggest that my major point was,
> duh, that there
> > > already are large botnets under the control of spammers.
> >
> > Um, not 1 million bots - in concert.
>
> And you know this how, exactly? I'm sure not convinced.
http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/business/story.asp?StoryID=65877
"Lycos Europe's 20 million users will all be invited to download
the software, but it is available to anyone with an internet connection
running either Windows or Mac OSX or Mac OS9 operating systems."
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/12/02/anti.spamvigi.ap/
"Around 65,000 people already signed up for the offensive, called
"Make Love not Spam" before Tuesday's official launch on a website
by the same name, the company said. It is urging its 22 million users
to download the screen-saver, but says anyone with a computer is welcome
to it."
