[95825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Blocking mail from bad places
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Apr 5 04:09:35 2007
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 01:01:39 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Reply-To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- black@csulb.edu wrote:----------------------
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:18:36 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
>> What I meant was: when only a few folks use email, the spammers will go
>>away.
>
> They won't go away, they'll just go infest whatever the people are using.
:
: MySpace and blog spamming can be cured instantly
: if users required all public posts to be moderated
: rather than automatically accepted.
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I have to agree with Valdis. My post was incomplete, though the analogy still stands. When I said spammers will go away, I should've said the 'email spammers' will go away. Just like parasites on a dead animal body, the spammers won't go away. They'll just find another live body and kill it. ad infinitum.
It's not a technology issue. It's not a political issue. It's a biological issue. Parasites kill until there's nothing left to kill. I wonder if spammers and cheats think of themselves that way? Rhetorical question...not a troll.
scott
