Howdy,
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, PJ McGarvey wrote:
> There has been a big move by spammers in the past year or so to use
> "botnets" or "zombies" as has been referred to here, for sending spam.
> Spam blockers used to rely partly on blocking mail from "open relays" or
> incorrectly configured mail servers that allowed anyone to authenticate
> and send mail. The recent closing of one of the big databases for
> tracking open relays, signifies this shift. It's pretty impossible to
> keep a database of zombie machines, as there are millions out there,
> that constantly change. New technologies like heuristics are supposed
> to be the next way to fight this, so filters can identify spam, the way
> you and I can, usually just by looking at the Subject, and patterns in
> words, etc.
Seems like if we started executing spammers, the incidence of spam would
drop down.
I mean, sure its tough to catch them and such, but a few executions should
help I think.
Mark
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