Re: [ATM] [Re: This list and spam.

["Norm Prince" <norman.prince@verizon.net>]

I know i've been working alot this week and several topics have reallly got 
the list gabbing a bunch...Am i missing something?... or do yall just have a 
hard time ignoring the inevitability of spam and the nature of the 
internet?... or just a hard time setting up filters in your software?...spam 
is only a bother if you let it be...99% of my spam lands in a folder labeled 
appropriately "SPAM"...infact this whole discussion should have landed in my 
spam folder since it is irrelevent to making telescopes...

of course i mean no offense..lol..please yall still take pitty on me when i 
have trouble/questions with my ATM'ing...just an observation!!!...pun 
intended.

-norm-


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexis Cousein" <al@sgi.com>
To: "Kevin MIchael Zabbo" <chaosopher23@yahoo.com>; <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 08:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ATM] [Re: This list and spam.


> Kevin MIchael Zabbo wrote:
>> I dunno how much a terabyte costs, but hackers create
>> viruses, worms, and trojans all for nothing.  A
>> white-hat hacker could write one that targets spammers
>> and leaves everyone else alone, but I'm not that elite
>> a hacker, though my hat is white.
>>
>> Kevin
>> --- Bob May <bobmay@nethere.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe we need a program to harvest the spammer's web
>>> addresses
>>> fromm the emails
>
> You're assuming they have an identity. They don't - spam is
> sent through machines taken over maliciously. The original
> machines controlling the bots are often in countries where
> enforcement of rules is lax, and you'll have a hard time
> convincing the entire world of machines capable of turning
> into bots to stop listening to entire countries.
>
> Besides, the machines that have become spambots (scattered
> all over the world, and having dynamical addresses shared by
> computers that are bona fide) are bots because the users aren't
> being careful, so putting the onus upon them to do something
> even smarter than avoiding infection isn't going to work.
>
>
> -- 
> Alexis Cousein                                  al@sgi.com
> Senior Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect     SGI/Silicon Graphics
> --
> <If I have seen further, it is by standing on reference manuals>
>
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