From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 13:54:04 MDT
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Amara Graps wrote:
> The solution to removing spam (if you have access to the Unix shell
> for your email) is procmail plus spambouncer. The spambouncer
> people provide excellent tutorials for how to set up the two, even for
> people like me who are not Unix wizards.
The problem with this is that it still allows the "spam" to be accepted
from the sender. Much better would be to make the slugs pay for their
crime in real time. This requires the installation of a mail recepient
(sendmail, etc.) that recognizes spam line-by-line as it is received,
rejects it, does a traceback to the ISP for said sender and sends a
note to their abuse managers. A limited DoS attack on the sender's
IP address probably wouldn't be a bad idea either.
All the solution Amara proposes does is keep the SPAM from her eyes.
It doesn't prevent the spammers from sending it and degrading the
network with it in the first place.
Its My Computer.
Its Our Network.
I reject completely corporate attempts to hijack these for their purposes.
In the world I envision you have to say "May I?"!
Robert
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