Avleen Vig wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:57:10AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>All spammers are not equal. There are sophisticated spammer and
>>unsophisticated ones. The spammers that use open relays are in the
>>second category. I'm already blocking 100% in this class of spammer.And
>>- if I were an open relay spammer and I could only send one message a
>>minute and that message bounced - I think I would find a better open
>>relay to use. So - the open relay spammers would be 100% discouraged by
>>my setup. Why would the bother to crack my system when there are so make
>>other open relays that are far easier?
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>You have a lot to learn about spam :-)
>I don't mean that as an offensive remark, but simply stating that things
>are not that simple.
>
>When a spammer learns what you limit it (eg, they find you allow 1
>message per minute), instead of giving up, you will probably find 10,000
>machines connecting to you to send 1 message per minute.
>Thus you are now allowing through 10,000 spams per minute.
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If a spammer has 10,000 computers - why would they need to relay through
my computer?
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