On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 10:35 AM, JC Dill wrote:
> Perhaps it would work to have initial moderation status set only for
> known "freemail" addresses that are subscribed thru email,
so how do you handle the case where someone sets up a disposable
domain, scripts subscriptions to 1000 mailing lists over a period of a
few weeks, and then plows out email to those lists from the domain
until the lists figure out what's going on and get the domain
blackholed or shut down?
right now, they're experimenting with hotmail because it's easy. But if
a spam haus has decided to target lists through scripted confirms adn
the like, there's a big exposure here. Think of the kind of zombie DDOS
hacks IRC servers have seen, where weeks of quiet prep work are put
into a short period of highly parallel action...
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Chuq Von Rospach, Architech
chuqui@plaidworks.com -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/
Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh
nervously and change the subject.
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