tisdag 15 juni 2004 10:00 skrev Fergus Wilde:
The various clever systems for bogging down spammers' SMTP are called tarpits, I understand, the idea being that they wallow in them and finally drown like the woolly mammoths of yore.
There's some quite interesting discussion of this periodically on the OpenBSD lists. But that's as much as I know.
When we're on the discussion on SPAM, I have to admit that I'm a big sceptic. I can understand an advertising company willing to pay someone a cent an address that he sends an advertisement to, but in no way would that benefit that company to have this person harrass their upcoming customers. It's like with pr0n, they don't benefit from ruining your computer ... that does not make buisness for them. Whome do I see benefiting? I see people, who want to be able to legislate the internet so that they have the ability to monitor whatever traffic there is on it, without any respect to individual privacy. And they are the only ones who benefit from this activity ... no one else benfits. And I mean no one else. Those are my prime suspect, as they're religious fanatics who believe that the end justifies the means, and thus "any" means are ustifyable. And that's probably why we haven't seen any stop for the spam yet. We won't, until the legislation has completely removed all our rights on the internet. Mvh, Örn PS. I agree with Benjamin Franklin, or wasn't he who said that anyone who sacrifices his freedom for security deserves neither.