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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

El dia Dijous 28 Març 2002 03:26 pm, no tenies res mes que fer i vas i 
m'envies aquest mail:
> Absolutely! Why stop with 'name your method' directed against only a
> single spammer box at a time?

There are a few reasons behind this proposal:

1. Limiting a one action per minute will make the spamward virtualy 
undetectable by over-zelous ISPs.

2. This also makes possible to be used by people conencted only through 
dial-up connections

3. The in/out traffic that you generate is minimum, so ISPs, you modem 
throughput, your corporate network... will be mostly unaware of spamward 
activities

4. The idea is to use the multiply effect of millions of boxes acting at the 
same time (GMT time), so duiring one hour, everyone and their mothers will be 
hittin' hard a spammer. Well, maximum of 60 actions fom your box, almost nil, 
but many many hits to the spammer.

5. If spamward would be acting many times a minute, it would be easily 
identifiable, by IPSs and spammers. And maybe this can cause someone 
presenting charges against you (US of Lawyers). But, then, pinging someone, 
once a minute? This causes no harm at all! Is inverse spamming, you see 
*evil grin*. And their activities are the same thing. How, then, can complain 
for getting the same ..."service" that they are providing?


Salut,
Josep
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Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, QA-Test Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
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