From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 03:56 PM 12/17/2005, Pollywog wrote:
On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of
> zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate.
>
> Does this surprise you at all?
Yes,
REALLY OT:
"Sure, some of them are stupid, but not all are."
Isn't that statement true of all stereotypes.. Women... Geeks..
Nerds... Men... Windows Admins (who write perl scripts -- me), Etc,
etc, so forth, so on?
(not stupidity...)
In general stereotypes are created out of frustration
At 03:56 PM 12/17/2005, Pollywog wrote:
On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of
> zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate.
>
> Does this surprise you at all?
Yes, because spammers are stupid and I had not s
> > Does this surprise you at all?
>
> Yes, because spammers are stupid
Not ALL spammers are stupid. They probably don't even consider themselves
unethical; but that is a side discussion.
I would say in general that there are two classes of spammers: those that
can make and/or very effectively u
On Saturday, December 17, 2005, 12:56:47 PM, Pollywog Pollywog wrote:
> On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:
>> Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of
>> zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate.
>>
>> Does this surprise you at all?
> Yes, because
On 12/17/2005 07:19 pm, Matt Kettler wrote:
> Spammers of any decent sophistication have rather extensive networks of
> zombies at their disposal that the can co-ordinate.
>
> Does this surprise you at all?
Yes, because spammers are stupid and I had not seen this sort of distributed
spamming bef
Pollywog wrote:
> For about two weeks, I have noticed something very odd. I get connections
> from mail servers (mostly in Germany) and each server tries to send one spam
> to a nonexistent user, then a different server (often at a university in
> Germany) will try with a different recipient, t
For about two weeks, I have noticed something very odd. I get connections
from mail servers (mostly in Germany) and each server tries to send one spam
to a nonexistent user, then a different server (often at a university in
Germany) will try with a different recipient, then a few seconds later,
