At 07:36 PM 2/23/2003, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>Are you aware of the numerous instances in which folks have had their
>address/domain forged into spam headers and have thus been subject
>to indirect denial-of-service attacks (e.g. millions of bounces)
What you are talking about here goes way beyond ordinary spam. I'm
sure you've seen things on the news about massive virus attacks crippling
computers worldwide on occasion, but that goes way beyond something like
the Klez and other ordinary email-bourne viruses I'm discussing.
> Are
>you aware that AOL tacks $3/user/month onto the bill just to cover the
>cover of their anti-spam defenses?
Gee, just think what they could do if the spent one cent per user to
fight viruses!
...Bob
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