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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:37:16AM +0100, manu@... wrote:
> http://news.com.com/Experts+Zombie+trick+set+to+send+spam+sky-high/2100-7349_3-5560664.html?tag=nefd.top

'"The e-mail infrastructure is beginning to fail," Linford warned. "You'll
see huge delays in e-mail and servers collapsing. It's the beginning of
the e-mail meltdown."'

Great. "Death of Email Predicted, Film at 11"

I don't understand all the doom and gloom surrounding this. Yes, there
may be some bad negative effects in the short-term... greylisting, as
you said, gets less effective, and possibly ISPs get thrown on blacklists
(bad) or they can't be because they're too big (bad in a different way).

But long-term if this is the way things go, I see it as a good thing. ISPs
have a lot more incentive to care about zombie spambot networks than
the average Joe home user with an unpatched Windows box sitting on his
broadband link. And this development means ISPs get a choke-point from
which they can impose maximum sending rates, do monitoring, etc. and
lock those bots out.

And of course the other possibility is that this technique may not work
because of the above, and spammers will go back to doing it the way they
did before, and all of this news will be moot.

Overall I'm not very worried. I certainly don't see it as a "beginning
of the e-mail meltdown" -- that's FUD.

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