[77750] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Thu Feb 3 17:48:52 2005
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "'J.D. Falk'" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:46:03 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> J.D. Falk
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:35 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
>
>
>
> On 02/03/05, "Miller, Mark" <mark.miller@qwest.com> wrote:
>
> > How come it is always about controlling the symptoms and not the
> > illness? The vast majority of these
> > "spam drones" are compromised WINDOWS machines. If the
> operating system
> > and dominant email applications so easily allows the users'
> machines to
> > be taken over by a third party, then there is something
> wrong with the
> > operating system and the mail applications. It occurs to
> me that the
> > solution is not to limit the range of destruction, but to defuse the
> > bomb. Perhaps the focus for a solution should move up the model to
> > layer 7.
>
> Upgrading and/or replacing the OS for every Windows user on the
> planet is an educational issue. Keeping the network viable
> while you figure out how to do that is an operational issue.
..or a cost issue. Most of these users are people who have
decided not to spend the $40 to defend their machine at home.
-M<
