John D. Hardin wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, John Rudd wrote: > Reducing volume of spam *sent* probably requires fundamental redesign > of the protocols, or some other major change in the cost/benefit > analysis. > Don't think that's needed, if ISP's only allow outgoing SMTP to the ISP's SMTP servers and not directly then most (current) bots and most spam will be dealt with. I wouldn't be surprised to see the amount of spam then drop more than 80%. (I know, just repeating myself ;-)) Come to think of it, changes are the zombies/bots will then be used for DDOS'ing everything that has an IP-address just as revenge :(
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