[Discuss] anti-spam.

[pw]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
 > for spam servers since previous boxes where they have stolen control keep
 > getting blacklisted.  If that is not the fundamental way in which 
spammers
 > work, then what is the point of all the blacklisting infrastructure 
and why
 > is it ineffective against your alternative scenario of a relatively fixed
 > set of spam servers?
 >
 > Alan

Most home systems are DHCP addresses from a providers block.
All the box needs to do is request a new lease with a different
address each time it sends bunch of spam.

There is also drive-by spam where the 'perp' uses some hapless
users home wireless router as a gateway outgoing mail DHCP lease
or through some, newly enthralled, redhat users open relay somewhere
  beyond that router.

This is probably why blacklisting doesn't work so well.
Especially on Shaw where every once in a while you can't
send email.

Then there's the off shore stuff...etc.etc

I suggest that everyone redirect thier viagra mail to
Glaxo-Smith-Klein or whoever manufactures it, since they
benefit from those sales. A kind of viagra internet tax
on the drug companies after the fact

Peter