Re: [vps-mail] Question about Sendmail/Spammers

["Andy McKell, FOCUS Internet" <mac@xxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, Wilson, it's just the word "spam" causes a red mist to descend over 
my eyes and my skin turns green and later I wake up in some dark alleyway.....


At 11:16 AM 4/5/2005 +0200, you wrote:

> > Sorry, Wilson, but spammers are smart. Why else are they such a problem to
> > very smart folks like us?
>
> We're drifing off topic here, but I have to say, IMO the people making
> big money are mostly not the actual spammers but those selling the
> addresses and the tools. There are a handful of operators that are
> "crazy like a fox", very clever in avoiding the pitfalls, but most
> spam activity is clueless trailer-trash trying to make a living and
> there are few "decisions" made about the quality of addresses. IOW, no
> one looks at the CD and says, "hmmmm, all these webmasters and
> postmasters aren't gonna be thrilled..."
>
> My statement about auto-reporting was misleading, for postmaster spam
> I do not auto report it except I "automatically report it manually". I
> do auto-report all mail received on addresses that have never been
> used and old domain reg addresses.
>
> Anyway, yep big waste of our time!
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