George Smith, 2003-04-20
In which your columnist ponders the question, which is worst for the Internet: computer viruses, spam that advertises anti-virus products, or clueless anti-spam solutions.
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Nice Ad at bottom of page: On Cures That Are Worse than the Disease
2003-04-21
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On Cures That Are Worse than the Disease
2003-04-21
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mr. Smith, I'm afraid your faith in peoples' lack of gullibility is not justified. I've been told of faculty members at a major university responing to a-v spam, only to discover that the businesses weren't even legitimate--they were con artists running short-lived Web sites from somewhere offshore...
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irony
2003-04-22
Saint Lucifer
Saint Lucifer
The piece I find amusingly ironic here is that the well-meaning spam-fighters of the world have created a climate in which ordinary mail administrators -- or sometimes regular old users -- have to study the same skills spammers have to study. I always keep track of a couple of open relays for use w...
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On Cures That Are Worse than the Disease
2003-04-22
Simon Waters
Simon Waters
I have zero sympathy for your correspondence with a neighbour who is a perpetual spammer unless this block is crossing ISP boundaries (which I doubt) he is financing an ISP who lives off hosting spammers and he should vote with his feet.
It is like renting a flat from a brothel keeper, and then c...
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On Cures That Are Worse than the Disease
2003-04-22
An email administrator (1 replies)
An email administrator (1 replies)
"In other words, bullying the blameless will do when the true objects of blame are next door but intractable."
Customers of spam-supporting ISPs are not blameless for they provide financial support.
I chose not to do business with ISPs that actively support spammers, to include the blocking of a...
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Customers of spam-supporting ISPs are not blameless for they provide financial support.
I chose not to do business with ISPs that actively support spammers, to include the blocking of a...
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On Cures That Are Worse than the Disease
2003-04-22
Penguinisto
Penguinisto
"Customers of spam-supporting ISPs are not blameless for they provide financial support."
Well that's a real help to the folks who are either completely ignorant of what their ISP does, or to rural users who don't have a whole lot of choice in the first place, now isn't it? 99.9999% of an ISP's ...
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Well that's a real help to the folks who are either completely ignorant of what their ISP does, or to rural users who don't have a whole lot of choice in the first place, now isn't it? 99.9999% of an ISP's ...
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On Cures That Are Worse than the Disease
2003-04-22
Anonymous
Anonymous
e-mail administrators (and, for that matter, net-nanny proxy server admins) who block entire domains because of a few miscreants do more harm than good. Consider: what if one elects to block all e-mail originating from all domains within Microsoft's ? [let's see: get rid of a lot of spam, also g...
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