Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:18:34 -0500 From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Party Message-ID: <451BE7CA.5030301@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <200609280821.41963.josh@tcbug.org> References: <20060920104047.GA49442@splork.wirewater.yow> <5dc6f198bfa0075cef0c190d90351273@FreeBSD.org> <200609271926.14172.soralx@cydem.org> <200609280821.41963.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh Paetzel wrote: > I could probably dodge a lot of it by running ssh on an alternate > port, but then I'd have to find something besides reading the logs to > amuse myself with. ...more amusing than reading logs? Impossible!<g> > The only viable solution to the problem of spam that I can see (and > I'm positive that it would never happen) is an international agency > tasked to track down and punish the people responsible for spam. > They'd have to have the power to go after these people no matter what > country they were hiding in, the resources to make a dent in the > problem, and the cooperation of a significant percentage of mail > admins on the net. > I came up with an alternative strategy a while back, that might render spam a dead end... what would happen if terrorists used spam to sell Viagra or something over the Internet, that turned out to actually be cyanide, or better yet... smallpox? "Spam depends on one thing, in order to succeed... people have to read it, and reply to it, and get out their credit cards, and click on the links in the spam, and order the Penis Pillz, and the glass dildos, and the pornography, and the other demented stuff, that spam promises. Once spam turns into a homicidal enterprise, there probably will not be enough suckers left, to permit spam any viability." http://robertwittig.net/2005/murder_by_spam.html > Perhaps a slightly more likely scenario would be to make it a crime to > run an open relay? I'd also like to see ISPs take measures to > protect the net from trojaned windows machines on high-speed DSL and > cable connections....perhaps allowing access only to their > mailservers? > > Anyways, enough pipe dreams, I have to get back to reading my logs. > The sendmail logs are good reading to.<g> -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/
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