Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:10:29 +0100 From: Julian Stacey <jhs@jhs.muc.de> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com>, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: spam Message-ID: <200112211610.fBLGATc85876@jhs.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> of "Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:40:07 PST." <200112210540.fBL5e7584983@apollo.backplane.com>
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> I can only hope that our illustrious congress has grown as tired of > spam as I have and will fix the law to simply ban it. > -Matt That would help, (most SPAM I receive even in Germany is from USA), but spammers would move offshore from USA & still target us, just as most German language spamming is now from countries outside Germany, so presumably German language spammers pay foreign intermediaries or subsidiaries to spam. Hostile counter attacks could supplement laws & filtering ... - I got a panic stricken international phone call from a UK spammer near where I used to live, after I mailed & threatened to report him to local police &/or launch net attacks on his facilities. - Anyone know of PD sourced tools & indexes that automate co-ordination of hostile counter attacks on identified spammers ? PS Maybe if we were to regularly automatically scramble all email addresses in our web searchable mail archives ? just inserting ._ErAsE_ThIs_. in every email address would protect us from easy harvesting by simple spammer robots. Julian J.Stacey Munich Unix (FreeBSD, Linux etc) Independent Consultant Reduce costs to secure jobs: Use free software: http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/free/ Ihr Rauchen = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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