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  • From: Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:49:31 -0500

Steven Champeon wrote:


No, they're not. They're a single response to a single message, maybe
repeated twice, but that's hardly "bulk".

Come on, we have a hard enough time trying to fight the real spammers,
folks listed on ROSKO, without such silly confusions of the issue.

Did you even read the web page? Point #6 - potential "joe-job" denial
of service. Say, for instance, C-R gets a penetration rate of 1%.
Someone then sends a spam with a valid e-mail address to a million
addresses. The return e-mail address will then end up receiving
100,000 C-R challenges. Tell me that's not bulk! If that's not bulk,
then I don't know what is.

Tanner
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