The spammers are winning

[James McDonald]

David A. Bandel wrote:

>FYI,
>
>For those of you who are interested, the spammers are winning.  Yet
>another RBL is shutting down (blackhole.compu.net).  They are being
>forced to shut down due to massive attacks on their servers by spammers.
>  
>
I understand that nothing can be done if you saturate the pipe. But 
wouldn't stateful inspection and some rules to say `when x number of 
connections occur from y host in z time' cause the firewall to drop the 
attacking hosts packet and at least try for partial service over none?

hasn't m$ moved to akagami or someone using linux so they can keep 
microsoft.com up in the face of persistent attack?

>Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you
>know anyone who has a company that grosses more than 100 million a year
>and an influential politician in their pocket, they need to start
>lobbying hard to stop spam and push ARIN, APNIC, RIPE, LANIC to revoke
>IP addresses of countries like China and Brasil who only care about spam
>when it concerns their own citizens.
>  
>
There is a guy in New Zealand that pays teenagers world wide to send 
spam so until it's global we ain't got much chance.

>Ciao,
>
>David A. Bandel
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