Re: spambots and dictionary attacks

On 22/11/06 10:30 -0700, Kurt Seifried wrote:
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> Sure and then the hosts are behaving like real email servers which is 
> vastly more expensive (computationally/etc.) than just blasting stuff out. 

Huh? They just blast the same spam out twice. Why should the spammers
bother to actually queue mail?

Keep in mind that a botnet has more computational power than the average
mailserver, more disk IO and more bandwidth.

Devdas Bhagat