[Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

Rich Kulawiec rsk at gsp.org
Sun Nov 30 04:11:10 PST 2008


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:39:51PM -0600, mathew wrote:
> If it's impossible to prevent spammers from using other people's resources
> merely by technical changes to how e-mail works, then why don't we see
> enormous problems with spammers using other people's resources to host web
> sites?

We see exactly that.  Are you not aware that spammers have, for years,
hosted their web sites on zombies and used fast-flux DNS techniques
to distributed traffic to them?

Really, you should at least make a perfunctory effort to acquaint yourself
with the rudiments of the spam problem before proposing solutions for it.

---Rsk


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