Henrik Krohns writes: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:20:21AM -0500, Jeff Chan wrote: > > Quoting Henrik Krohns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:09:27AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > > > > > > > > I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have > > > > infinite resources, they can deliver us a LOT of hurt when they wish to. > > > > I can think of a lot worse things they could do - and probably will :-( > > > > > > You are mixing things up. Spammers want to send as much stuff as possible. > > > Evil hackers/kiddies/whatever are the ones that want to shut you down. > > > > Spam gangs, virus writers, phishers, bot herders, etc., tend to be many of > > the > > same criminals. The Storm malware can send spam, do ddos, infect other > > machines, etc. Some of the authors of spamware were found to also be > > authors > > of viruses and malware. > > Ok, they may be some of the same people, but when they are operating as > "Spammers", I doubt they have delaying mail in mind.
They don't particularly care what happens to your MTA -- they just want to push out as many messages as possible, to as many addresses as possible. If this overwhelms some smaller sites, c'est la vie, I'd guess. --j.
