[98661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Aug 15 03:36:11 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:46:59 GMT
To: christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
- -- "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
>> More than ~85% of all spam is being generated by spambots.
>
>yes, that relates to my question how though? I asked: "Do spammers moni=
tor
>the domain system in order to spam from the domains in flux as tastinng=
>domains?" I asked this specifically because that behavior was being use=
d
>as a 'resaon to stop tasting', or to clamp down on it atleast.
>
The answer to your question is "Yes, sometimes."
But that's not the explicit reasoning behind the motivations
behind tasting.
>Conflating the 3 (or parts of the 2 sets) is
>just as wrong as saying that 'tasting lets the terrorists win'.
Completely agree, and would not want to paint this problem in
that light.
Again, this problem is multi-fold: bad actors gaming the system for
illicit (and illegal) purposes.
- - ferg
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014)
wj8DBQFGwqFfq1pz9mNUZTMRAm59AKD2iwDGNA+hBOu7RPNunp16PvC+AQCcD67x
k31lq1G9F6wqjIkbqELucto=3D
=3DRtK2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
