On 5/19/02 11:19 PM, "J C Lawrence" <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:
> And that's not even counting the potential problem of SPAMmers using
> compromised robot/proxy systems to originate/send their mail for them.
> It would be a simple, even trivial enough piece of code to run a robot
> SPAM factory this way. Actually, thinking about it now, I'm rather
> surprised that we haven't seen this technique rolled out already.
Oh, they have. Just read news.net-abuse.* newsgroups. There are fights going
on over a couple of UDP (usenet death penalties) over ISPs that don't patrol
their networks. One has something like 14,000 proxy relays on it or some
godawful thing.
And then there are the zillions of sites running versions of formmail.pl
that are wide open to spammers. And the spammers who send out through
company's "forward to a friend" CGIs and feedback form CGIs. And...
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