 keith2468Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB | reply to tsu9
Spam a bigger problem than you can imagine When you say spam is not that big a problem you are probably thinking just of the impact on students and recreational computer users.
Actually spam is a major problem costing industry as a whole and governments billions of dollars a year in wasted manpower and interrupted communications.
Information desks and sales people can't simply rely on automated spam filters, and this means going through their email piece by piece, and given the volume this means great expense, plus there is the possibility of manual error, meaning an important piece of email could be lost.
As well, spam, and how spamming is done, creates major security problems inevitably involving national security concerns, corporate security concerns, and personal identity theft concerns, as insecure software is installed without permission on victim computers to facilitate spam botnets.
The easily seen costs to ISPs of increased server and communications line needs to to the waste of spam, and support costs to aid customers infected with spam bots are merely the tip of the iceberg -- and maybe not even that.
When you understand the technical details of how it is done, and what is going one, spam really is a major organized crime and national security issue.
As far as I'm concerned, any ISP that tolerates spammers should be denied peering privileges by other ISPs.
Any country that tolerates spammers should have all its IP addresses blocked at our country's borders.
And any IT professional that aids spammers (and who do you think writes the spambot software) should be blackballed from the profession for 10 years (on a first offense).
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 Rogue WolfAte Your Homework, And Framed The Dog
join:2003-08-12
Troy, NY | said by keith2468:Any country that tolerates spammers should have all its IP addresses blocked at our country's borders. You do realize that the U.S. is consistently ranked as one of the most prolific sources of spam Email, don't you? Would you like it if the rest of the world cut off our access?
Let's just dismantle the Internet and build a whole bunch of little intranets, one for each country. Not that it would do a thing to spam mail.
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| said by Rogue Wolf:said by keith2468:Any country that tolerates spammers should have all its IP addresses blocked at our country's borders. You do realize that the U.S. is consistently ranked as one of the most prolific sources of spam Email, don't you? Would you like it if the rest of the world cut off our access? Let's just dismantle the Internet and build a whole bunch of little intranets, one for each country. Not that it would do a thing to spam mail. This goes back to some ISPs and their "pink" contracts. Some of them should be knocked off until they deal with the problem. Even my dad's email was spoofed and MSN cut off his email.
If you blocked Comcast or Verizon because of spam bots, you would see a definite change in that they would cut off those machines that are infected and force the owners to clean it up or get kicked off. No different than the invisible caps some people deal with.
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 Combat ChuckToo Many CannibalsPremium
join:2001-11-29
Erie, PA | reply to keith2468
said by keith2468:When you say spam is not that big a problem you are probably thinking just of the impact on students and recreational computer users. Let me think...a crapload of spam or people being blasted off the net.
Spam as a problem pales in comparison to having no access to the net because someone hosted at the same place as me is getting DDOS'd.
Spam is manageable, being DDOS'd is not.
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