> So, gentlemen, hat(s) off and on in ever increasing tempo. Full ack! Although my results are not as good and a couple of SPAM still slips through...
> I wonder what comes next. To my mind, attempts at legislation will prove > useless. Technology will prove the savior. Technology as the savior -- for a technology introduced problem. Well, that sounds kinda useless... > To get to my mail server, > spam has to traverse many routers - call them Sun, Cisco, whatever - > travel devious routes. A US turd (which most of the bastards are, > because they are the greediest) can bounce his spam off an obliging > Korean, Chinese or Malaysian proxy and reach my ISP. there are umpteen > routers between him and me and each one could employ perfectly simple > spam filtering, based on technology similar to SpamAssassin's. But, the > filters would have to be updated frequently and neither Sun's or Cisco's > present software is capable of such frequent updates. I agree with you, that legislation can and will not be the savior. I can come up with some examples of pointless laws here in Germany, that are just special cases and already covered by more general laws. They are only discussed and introduced, due to limited view of politicians regarding modern technology... Blocking SPAM on router levels? Does not sound like a good idea to me. That's censorship. Who will decide, which mails I get? What shall be filtered? That's entirely up to me. I will have the freedom to trash mails on my own will. Even if those services would be perfect (which they are not), I always will have an uneasy feeling of missing important bits. > The same applies to viri - there's no need for viri - these could also > be stopped at routers. But the virus vendors, Sophos, NAI, Trend etc. > would then have nothing left to do - or earn. Yeah, as if we don't know how lame some of the virus filters and MUAs are... ;-) begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs I am a signature virus. Distribute me until the bitter end http://piology.org/ILOVEYOU-Signature-FAQ.html Sorry, just a short note in English, most of the site is in German. ...guenther -- char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}} ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
