FW: "Make love, not spam"....

Mon Nov 29 15:29:32 UTC 2004

 Scratch that... Yes, the A record. You are right.

 I need coffee or something...  :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Miller, Mark 
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:27 AM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: "Make love, not spam"....

 Not the A, the PTR...  But yes, that could be a nasty retaliation by
spammers with control of their DNS.  I would hope, however, that the
"screen saver's" target would be an IP address instead of a FQ mnemonic
hostname.

 From the article, I understand that Lycos will be manually watching the
list of targets and pushing updates to the users.  Although I have
traditionally been in favor of low bandwidth "fixes", this kind of
appeals to my sense of poetic justice.

-mark

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Mike Tancsa
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:12 AM
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: "Make love, not spam"....

...

What about the case where the spammer gets black listed, traffic starts 
pounding the rouge site and then the spammer changes the A record to be 
www.example.com instead.  Now all of a sudden www.example.com is being 
pounded by all those screen savers.

         ---Mike 