Re: Spam sent from compromised (web)hosts vs botnet spam

On March 22, 2013 at 21:11 [email protected] (John Levine) wrote:
 > >2. How can each of those potentially affect spam et al?
 > 
 > I'd like to start with this one.  A lot of people seem to assume that
 > if we could associate an identity with each message, the spam problem
 > would be solved.
 > 
 > I can think of at least two reasons that's not true, and there are
 > likely more.

I suppose that depends on the definition of "identity" somewhat.

But would the spam problem be mitigated?

That's a different proposition.


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