Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic
Jon Ribbens <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:17:32 +0000
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Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote: > No, it doesn't. Do you see why playing whack-a-mole with spammer's zombie > SMTP relay clients is less effective than simply shutting down the spammer's > sales websites? Do you see why the latter is easier? Do you understand that > shutting down or refusing to retrieve from a spammer's outgoing mail store is > like the latter, rather than the former? No, I don't. Please explain. The spammer will surely have many mail stores, each of which will only be short-lived anyway. Regardless, it is the message notification which causes most of the cost to the recipient, not the message itself.