Unplugging spamming PCs

Thu Jun 24 00:26:00 UTC 2004

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:40:23 -0700, Larry Pingree <lpingree at juniper.net> wrote:

> I agree with you it's a hard problem to solve. But unless there is
> mandatory cooperation within mail server software (which can be
> monitored) to interface with a registry of acceptable/registered sites,
> then this model could work. 

I can telnet to a mailserver and send mail to that host without much
thought.  What good will a registry do?  What will solve spam is
getting some of these virus writers to actually write some code that
will trash disks of poorly patched (if a at all) hosts.  Let Darwin
take over.

-Joe