Re: teergrubing
Tony Earnshaw <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.exim.spamassassin |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] wrote: > The idea isn't to DOS -- the idea, is to have a clickthrough for every > recipient. > > Mr.Spammer sends out 5,000,000 emails. 5,000,000 x 1k isn't much > bandwidth. He only needs 5 people to buy his wares to turn a profit on > the mailing – and he doesn't expect more than 200 people or so to click > through to his website. > > His website though, if you visit and click around, is over 200k with > images and html. Every 2,500 visits to that site will cost him as much > as emailing 5,000,000. > > 10,000 people using a plugin in their email app that downloads the > contents of a spammers website drives his costs up 500%. > > Its not a DOS attack. Its not illegal. It is a simple response to an > advertising callout. "Buy my stuff: click here for info". A plugin > automatically clicks the links for you and saves them to disk. > > If 100,000 people used the plugin then, possibly, it could have the same > effect as a DDOS -- but technically, and legally, it wouldn't be, "Well", he said lamely "it doesn't seem a good idea to me". BTW it seems that Windows machines (by the hundred) are in fact getting trojan-hacked to send spam. In the end, it's the ISP who's going to have to do the combating. Tony -- Tony Earnshaw Looking backwards is always easy with hindsight http://www.billy.demon.nl Mail: [email protected]