[arachne] Re: Spam news

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Udo,

Please read the report sent to the list, then tell me and other
dialup users how we are the primary culprits for sending spam!


>>http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-5176-2-79-194602-591828-0-0-0-1

Again, I have been on dialup for many years in many different fashions, BBS,
AOL, Freewwweb, OneNation, Juno, etc etc etc...never once was my dialup
connection "hijacked" by a spammer to send unsolicited email.  What you 
are expressing is the "forged header information" that zombie machines use
to make it appear that email is being sent by some user, doesn't matter whom,
nor what connection is used.  Anyway, it makes no sense that a spammer would
routinely use dialup, with a max speed of 53 kps, when they can use highspeed
at 112k or faster, 1 mb/sec even, to send their garbage.  The name of the game
for spamers is to send as much crap as possible in as little time as it takes.  
Then
you hijack some unprotected PC, with the highspeed connection, and you can
send thousands of messages in the same amount of time it takes dialup to send
ten.
I'm not referring to those trojan "dialer" programs...that's a horse of a 
different color!

C U L8R!
Wiz  <{;-)
At 12/29/06 2:30:00 PM, you wrote:
>Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
>> This report doesn't surprise me in the least.  It seems
>> the vast majority of targeted PCs for "zombie recruitment"
>> are some sort of "broadband" connected, probably always
>> on, 24-7-365 type connection.  So, perhaps the most sensible
>> and effective approach to eliminate about 85 percent of
>> spam would be...are you ready?...
>> GET RID OF 24-7-365 BROADBAND INTERNET CONNECTIONS!!!
>> Hmmm...if everyone were only on dialup, such as myself, spam
>> problems could be drastically reduced!  However, I don't see
>> very many users giving up their highspeed internet anytime soon!
>
>Sorry, I cannot see how this is related to Spam - from my experience,
>most of the Spam in my web forum comes from PCs that use dial-up
>connections, so they get a different IP address every time, which makes
>them particularly hard to weed out. So I would rather vote for banning
>dial-up connections in favour of "always-on" broadband connections.
>Especially since I am one of those DSL users who drain the Internet
>capacity with their vast bandwidth. ;-)
>
>Regards,
>
>Udo
>
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