Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

Jon Ribbens <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:17:32 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.im2000
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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.