On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:02 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> > What get's spammers caught is that eventually they > >have to sell you something > > Gee, did we drop through a wormhole into 1998 or something? > He's missing a few somethings. Spammers might not be trying to sell you something. They could be sending malicious payloads (i.e. you/your computer are being sold to someone else). They could be sending junk to try and get someone else blacklisted. They could simply be trying to DDOS your mail server. I know that some of the low-end client systems we built for 'budget constraints' will eventually back up if they receive around 1 message/sec for about 10 minutes. etc... -A
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