On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Chris Santerre wrote:
> OK, you all know I got the nasty email. You all know that my 'evilrules' has
> to do with spam hosts. The ones that host the images. Well this seems to be
> the way to attack the spammers.
>
[snip..]
> Since many spammers are resorting to image spam, I think this is the way to
> go. It also seems they use one ISP for many spam hosts. So making one phone
> call or email can shutdown a bunch.
>
> This is theory only. Complain to the image host ISP, not where the mail came
> from?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Chris Santerre
For 'legit' spammers, it may have some effect but for two major
sources (and increasing ones I fear) it won't make any difference.
1) Offshore spamhausen (It used to be Korea and Taiwan but it seems
to be a new growth industry in China). See http://www.1ccms.com
for an example.
2) Virus/worm hijacked PCs. We're seeing lots of PCs on cable modems
that have "remote control" trojan/worms on them that are being
used by spammers as open proxies (for both SMTP & HTTP).
So you may be able to get a few of these shut down but
there are thousands of them.
Sigh.
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